The Navy, which had almost 600 ships in the 1980s, now has 310, but Rumsfeld warns that lackofmoney is driving the number down to an "unacceptable" 230.
In the case of new Medicaid, the states can now freely take the contract as originally offered: accede to the new program, the free money and the lackof an opt-out clause.
In schools, and now in social services, systematic inspection seems to raise standards, and to counteract the assumption that a lackof taxpayers' money is all that is wrong with public services.