http://www.drudge.com/user/homerj New links and comments. en-us http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wordzilla/0.58 10 http://www.drudge.com/news/153267/death-baseline-budgeting http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/9531-the-death-of-baseline-budgeting A solution for replacing baseline budgeting comes from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), called "priority-based budgeting." In their State Budget Reform Toolkit they outline a system where legislators must decide what are the core functions of government, rather than simply going by last year's expenditures and then adding inflation and policy changes. Instead, it forces legislators to actually debate what government is supposed to be doing, and thus is an "output-based" budgeting system, rather than the current morass, which is simply "input-based." Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:24:27 -0500 homerj http://www.drudge.com/news/153267/death-baseline-budgeting#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.153267 discussion, 0.5 daily 153267 http://www.drudge.com/news/150832/uc-davis-occupy-protester-admits-they http://www.therightscoop.com/uc-davis-occupy-protester-admits-they-provoked-police-in-pepper-spray-incident/ Elli Pearson, one of the Occupy protesters who was pepper-sprayed by police at UC-Davis, admitted to "Democracy Now!" that the protesters locked arms and sat down to surround the police, who were actually trying to leave the campus. The protesters then told the police that if they wanted to leave, they'd have to clear a path through the protesters... "Well we were protesting together and the riot cops came at us and we linked arms and sat down peacefully to protest their presence on our campus. And then at one point they were – we had encircled them and they were trying to leave and they were trying to clear a path. And so we sat down, linked arms and said that if they wanted to clear the path they would have to go through us. But we were on the ground, you know, heads down and all I could see was people telling me to cover my head, protect myself and put my head down. And the next thing I know we were pepper-sprayed." Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:50:10 -0500 homerj http://www.drudge.com/news/150832/uc-davis-occupy-protester-admits-they#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.150832 discussion, 0.5 daily 150832