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  Make Prisons Completely Self Sufficient

  The prison systems appear to be full of able-bodied individuals with a lot of new found time on their hands. Turn this workforce into farmers for internal food production and consumption. Reduce electricity consumption with onsite energy production (more secure sky lighting, no TV, night time complete darkness with battery backed up IR for security, extensive solar panel network, treadmills hooked to generators ect..). ...more »

  The prison systems appear to be full of able-bodied individuals with a lot of new found time on their hands. Turn this workforce into farmers for internal food production and consumption. Reduce electricity consumption with onsite energy production (more secure sky lighting, no TV, night time complete darkness with battery backed up IR for security, extensive solar panel network, treadmills hooked to generators ect..). Reduce water consumption with timed showers and utilize local wells or infrastructure collecting rain water. Reserve waste removal and laundry for the underachievers and unmotivated. Offer and impairment “arts and craft”/”essential manufacturing” time to create products for resale to cover any additional costs (guards salaries, medical treatment, education, and rehabilitation supplies, ect…) It’s just that simple and will save piles of cash and wasted resources in the long run.

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  Cut Congressional, Judicial, Executive salaries to 1984 levels

  Cut all of their pay, Congress, White House members, Judges, etc. in half. This would save us 50% of what we taxpayers pay now. http://federaldaily.com/articles/2011/03/11/salary-cut-bill-for-congress.aspx "Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., introduced a bill on March 10 that would cut by 10 percent the annual salaries of the president, vice president and members of Congress. For President Obama, that would be a $40,000 ...more »

  Cut all of their pay, Congress, White House members, Judges, etc. in half. This would save us 50% of what we taxpayers pay now.

  http://federaldaily.com/articles/2011/03/11/salary-cut-bill-for-congress.aspx

  "Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., introduced a bill on March 10 that would cut by 10 percent the annual salaries of the president, vice president and members of Congress. For President Obama, that would be a $40,000 reduction."

  This is a start but I say 50% at least! The average Congress member gets a minimum of $174,000 a year (2011 levels).

  From 1789 to 1815, members of Congress received only a per diem (daily payment) of $6.00 while in session. Members began receiving an annual salary in 1815, when they were paid $1,500 per year.

  In 1989, Congress passed an amendment allowing for the automatic raises, unless lawmakers specifically voted to reject it. Which Congress did, until 2000...

  Since 1990, congressional pay had increased from $98,400 to $154,700 in 2003.

  Also... Presidential pay history:

  September 24, 1789: $25,000 (actual) $566,000 (2009)

  March 3, 1873: $50,000 (actual) $865,000 (2009)

  March 4, 1909: $75,000 (actual) $1,714,000 (2009)

  January 19, 1949: $100,000 (actual) $906,000 (2009)

  January 20, 1969: $200,000 (actual) $1,175,000 (2009)

  January 20, 2001: $400,000 (actual) $487,000 (2009)

  Decrease pay so that it will not be the sole factor to run for office. Notice how the dollar's value has decreased!

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  Value Added Enhancement (Position Based Reporting) to OMB MAX

  (1) Federal Payroll systems must be synchronized with the Federal Personal Services (Salaries and Benefits) budgeted in the financial systems. (2) There must be a subsytem used that allows each agency to populate the "budgteted position" of each employee, pull their grade, step, salary and benefits, by the lowest level (org code) to enable it to: (2.1) "project" salary and benefits by each employee by each Org each PPE, ...more »

  (1) Federal Payroll systems must be synchronized with the Federal Personal Services (Salaries and Benefits) budgeted in the financial systems. (2) There must be a subsytem used that allows each agency to populate the "budgteted position" of each employee, pull their grade, step, salary and benefits, by the lowest level (org code) to enable it to: (2.1) "project" salary and benefits by each employee by each Org each PPE, (2.2) post the actual salary and benefits from employee to an aggregated "Org" by each PPE, (2.3) show the difference (budget to actual) by each Object Class for each employee at the lowest level and each Org at the highest level; (2.4) calculate a "burn rate" (average of the 3 preceeding PPEs) from which to "project" what the fiscal year end Personal Services Object Classes will be. (2.5) Calculate a "pay-out" (by selecting a PPE) to project the fiscal impact by Object Class if the employee leaves federal service at a specified PPE. It must apportion the "work days" of the PPEs within a month (e.g. day 1 to day 31).

  This is "position based budgeting and reporting". It should be available in MAX, accesible to only the respective agencies but serve as a database in MAX so that OMB can develop some predictive models.

  Working with MS Excel is 1990s technology. These current financial systems do not interchange data (payroll reconciliation with financial system data within a monthly reporting period so that you can see the detail of Salary and Benefits by position, by Object Classes, and by Org between March 1st and march 31st) so that payroll detail for March is synchronized with the financial data in the March monthly report of Personal Services.

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  Management Idea

  Cameras in the offices of all manager, or higher positions. If these folks are good enough for management positions, why shouldn't we do what we can to make sure we're getting our moneys worth? Camera's are being used everywhere else, including police cars. This would increase productivity, reduce workplace violence, intimidation, sexual harrassment, discrimination, etc. Our salaries, promotions, and demotions are ...more »

  Cameras in the offices of all manager, or higher positions. If these folks are good enough for management positions, why shouldn't we do what we can to make sure we're getting our moneys worth? Camera's are being used everywhere else, including police cars. This would increase productivity, reduce workplace violence, intimidation, sexual harrassment, discrimination, etc. Our salaries, promotions, and demotions are based on their recommendations, why should that be left to chance?

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