by Patrick Martin
http://www.wsws.org
8 January 2009
Barack Obama took the occasion of his first press appearance in Washington as president-elect to declare his determination to impose policies of budgetary austerity, including the elimination of entire federal programs and cost-cutting in the entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid that are of vital importance to tens of millions of elderly and poor people.
Obama announced his appointment of Nancy Killefer, a director at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., to a new White House post of chief performance officer. Killefer, a Treasury official in the Clinton administration, will be in charge of setting performance standards for federal agencies and enforcing them on agency officials. Those programs that fail to meet these standards will be targeted for reorganization or elimination.
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President-elect Obama Convenes Emergency Economic Meeting
ChangeDotGov on Jan 5, 2009
On his first day in Washington, D.C., President-elect Obama met with his economic advisory team.
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Mr. Slick.