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Intro -- TIME FOR TRUTH: FACING THE NATION'S FISCAL FUTURE -- TIME FOR TRUTH: FACING THE NATION'S FISCAL FUTURE -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND REFORM: THE MOMENT OF TRUTH -- PREAMBLE -- THE LOOMING FISCAL CRISIS -- OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND VALUES -- OVERVIEW -- THE PLAN -- I. Discretionary Spending Cuts -- Recommendation 1.1. Cap Discretionary Spending Through 2020 -- Recommendation 1.2: Cut Both Security and Non-Security Spending -- Recommendation 1.3: Enforce Caps Through two Mechanisms -- Point of Order and Abatement -- Recommendation 1.4: Require the President to Propose Annual Limits for War Spending -- Create a separate category for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) -- Recommendation 1.5: Establish A Disaster Fund to Budget Honestly for Catastrophes -- Recommendation 1.6: Stop the Abuse of Emergency Spending -- Recommendation 1.7. Fully Fund the Transportation Trust Fund Instead of Relying on Deficit Spending -- Dedicate a 15-cent per gallon increase in the gas tax to transportation funding, and limit spending if necessary to match the revenues the trust fund collects each year. -- Recommendation 1.8. Unleash Agencies to Begin Identifying Savings -- Recommendation 1.9: Establish Cut-and-Invest Committee to Cut Low- Priority Spending, Increase High-Priority Investment, and Consolidate Duplicative Federal Programs -- Recommendation 1.10: Adopt Immediate Reforms to Reduce Spending and Make the Federal Government More Efficient -- 1.10.1 Reduce Congressional and White House budgets by 15 percent -- 1.10.2. Impose a three-year freeze on Member pay -- 1.10.3. Impose a three-year pay freeze on federal workers and Defense Department civilians -- 1.10.4. Reduce the size of the federal workforce through attrition -- 1.10.5. Reduce federal travel, printing, and vehicle budgets

An examination of the relationship between football (futbol) & government in Brazil & Argentina. In both countries, the governments have had an important role in the development of the sport since the turn of the century. The association of football with politics in Brazil is seen through the examples of political leaders' public appearances at matches for political gain. In Argentina, a systematic relationship between football & government is seen under the government of Juan Peron. The Argentinean World Cup was hosted during the military dictatorship in 1978, & became a mechanism by which the government attempted to demonstrate its legitimacy to the world. A. Cole