Michael Franc
Michael Franc
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There is a sense this year that anything is possible, that they have the rapt attention of the leadership.
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He sees this as an opportunity to revamp the entire relationship of the federal government to the region,
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Boomers always struck me as very self-centered and self-important, because there are so many of us. We're always in the middle of the next fun moment at some everlasting party, and we're not able to defer the gratification to tackle the long-term problems.
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Crises cause government to grow. The test today will be how much of the federal response occurs within the existing boxes or through innovative ways.
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It certainly is the perfect storm of aggravating or provoking congressional egos and the president getting his back up and saying the least diplomatic thing he could have said.
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They did a lot of tier-two issues that were important to certain constituencies but that, in and of themselves, were not of any great magnitude. It was not a year for, obviously, enactment or even action on tier-one issues.
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You look at the relationship between 50 state sovereigns and the federal government, and the states always come out on the short end of the stick. They've consistently traded autonomy for cash, and they've consistently wound up with neither.
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What they know is that the actual answers to increase supply or take down demand offer no quick fixes.
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The extent to which he used the State of the Union to launch and define the 'ownership society' concept is important because if you take it to its natural extreme, the ownership society would essentially replace the 'Great Society. That's a major shift from where we've been.
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The conundrum they face is that they know better.