A WEEKLY COMMENTARY
Year Forty ... Number Eighteen ... September 13, 1993
PPBS - PHASE TWO
Whenever President Clinton finds himself facing a sympathetic audience or an inviting microphone, he is apt to mention the need for "reinventing government." He never defines or explains what the term means, except that it's supposed to "restructure" government so as to make it "more efficient and compassionate." Being such a catchy phrase, we wondered if something special was hidden behind the word "reinventing." It brought to mind stories of the various stops and studies of existing governments which Clinton had made while on the way to the White House. Under the tutorship of Carroll Quigley he would have learned much of the conspiracy and the conspirators connected with the creation of their New World Order. In the preface to his remarkable book Tragedy and Hope Quigley wrote: "Much of my adult life has been devoted to training undergraduates in techniques of historical analysis which will help them to free their understanding of history from the accepted categories and cognitive classifications in which we live ....The present work is the result of such an attempt to look at the real situations which lie between conceptual and verbal symbols." So young Clinton had been given the story of the inner workings of the conspiracy first hand. Then at Oxford, birthplace of Fabian Socialism, he learned of the system that was then controlling Britain and had come so close to controlling the United States as well under FDR's Brain Trust and their New Deal. Still in England, while promoting anti-US demonstrations because of America's involvement in the Vietnam War, Clinton received with other "scholars of government" an invitation to visit Moscow where he could study the type of government initiated by Lenin and side-tracked by Stalin. Then, lucky scholar, he was able to visit Rome where he could learn of the techniques and methods of Fascism under Mussolini. Returning home, he must have felt the effect that David Rockefeller's brother Laurence made while he was trying to take over Arkansas as a private preserve for the study and development of environmentalism as a tool of government. Laurence would have made an interesting study. While trying to run Clinton's home state of Arkansas, he also managed to hold the Rockefeller family seat on the New York Stock Exchange, approved a plan for the takeover of South American industry and agriculture, and represented the family in the CFR-promoted and Communist cited Institute of Pacific Relations; all this at the same time heading the parade of politically inspired environmentalists, a post now occupied by VP Al Gore.
In all of his first hand observation and study of government systems, Clinton may have learned that governments are often invented (Lenin, Mussolini, FDR), but few are reinvented. And when the reinventing time came, Clinton was presented with the plan and he was told how to carry it out. We say this because when it came time for the president to take a vacation, he did a very unusual thing, he went to Martha's Vineyard for an eleven day period of virtual isolation from the world. He stayed at the estate of Robert Strange McNamara, where he was probably told about the reinventing was to be made, and how he would conduct the operation. You'll probably remember McNamara. He was the man who had to do with the Edsel, probably the worst failure in all of American automobile building history. He was the "Whiz Kid" in the Defense Department who designed the system that was used in fighting the Vietnam War, where untold numbers of people were killed because of the failure of his plan. That plan is known as the "Planning-Programming-Budgeting System (PPBS), sometimes known as "Management by Objective" or "Accountability." McNamara went on to become president of the World Bank, and he is said to be known by others of the Conspiracy as the real expert whenever PPBS is mentioned. So it is very likely that Clinton's vacation was planned that he might "sit at the feet" of McNamara and learn of the government reinventing he was to manage as President of the United States.
Recently we received a letter and considerable important information from a long-time subscriber of our Don Bell Reports. "I am a great admirer of your work and read all your reports faithfully over the years. I know you will keep it up as long as you can... .I don't think you have forgotten your special report in 1972 on 'Proofs of a Conspiracy to Build a Total Managed Global Society.' Well that was just Phase One and now we have entered Phase Two. Twenty-one years have passed since that day and now we are all a lot older, and I hope as wise. May God Bless Us All.' True, we had forgotten much of what we had written twenty-one years ago. So we went to our files, and found our report consisted of a seventeen part series having to do with PPBS, begun on September 8. 1972. It's now out of print and no longer available. In the first of the seventeen letters, we concluded with this statement: "This revolutionary plan [PPBS] for the reshaping of the world is complex, difficult to understand because of its semantics. Even the name of the plan is disarming, seemingly innocent and innocuous. It is called Planning-Programming-Budgeting System and few people other than its operators even know of its existence." Our recent correspondent said: "That was just Phase One and now we have entered Phase Two." So Clinton was sent to the Vineyard to learn that while Phase One was a failure except in its destruction of the public education system, Phase Two must succeed if Clinton is to succeed.
At this point we quote our correspondent who told us about Phase Two: "Back in the 60s under President Johnson our government destroyed the only logical and accepted method of budgeting, that of the line-item budget, and shifted into Program Budgeting. This began the problem of the uncontrolled and the massive and also uncontrolled federal deficit. All functions of the government were grouped into programs that were locked into place wth multi-year fundings (5-year plans, same as in the Soviet Union). This deprived Congress of the ability to make changes to the federal budget uness they eliminated the whole program or changed the budget process. Since no one in government, especially those in congress, really knew how to Program Budget, unwanted programs continued until they were finally phased out, and the deficit grew and grew. Every president since Johnson has gone along with this concept until they got into trouble with the deficit and started mouthing words about a 'line-item veto.' That was Program Budgeting (a part of PPBS). Moving into Performance Budgeting will just take the process to another level, that of measuring the individual performer. On Tuesday, August 3, President Clinton signed into law the "Government Performance and Results Act" (Phase Two). The Act says that Federal agencies will have to say what they will do with the money they get and will be measured against those promises. This major step will move the government out of Phase One, Program Budgeting, into the long awaited Phase two, Performance Budgeting. This action was pre-planned by those who originally designed the PPB System.
Once Program Budgeting was declared a failure, as it was with the 1993 Budget process, our government was programmed to proceed to Performance Budgeting, and of course President Clinton is making sure that will happen." That's why he went to the Vineyard. "However," we are told, "the federal bureaucracy could not take this step until it was established that the federal computers had the capability of measuring the performance of every government employee [of which there are 3,033,215 according to Standard & Poor], not to mention every private citizen. These measurements will not be limited to the job performance, but will be done in the taxanomic domains (cognitive, affective and psychomotor), how the individual thinks, feels and acts."
The computers are now ready to record how every individual thinks, feels and acts, so President Clinton was directed to get down to the business of what he calls "reinventing government."
While we were writing this report, the Clintons came to Miami to visit with and again promise the people whose homes and businesses were destroyed more than a year ago by Hurricane Andrew will receive help, but are still waiting for the very inefficient FEMA to fulfill its promises. Clinton then explained that he would be engaged for some time with the promoting of NAFTA, a vital part of the NWO Economic Program. Also, he would be very busy touring the country with Hillary, selling her new health program. So, Al Gore had been assigned to job of "reinventing" the legislative branch of government. Accordingly, as soon as Congress was back from its summer vacation, Gore was on the spot telling legislators about how Performance Budgeting would work. In an apparently exclusive article written for USA TODAY, Gore asked, "Can't we create a government that works better and costs less?" and answers himself, "Yes. President Clinton created the National Performance Review to do just that and today we present to the president the results of our work [Performance Budgeting]. Gore explains that "the president can make some changes right away. But others require new laws. Accomplishing the whole job requires a partnership between all branches of government - as well as between the private and public sectors." This is where "How the individual (in the private sectors) is monitored and recorded as to "how he thinks, feels and acts". Finally, Gore refers to The National Performance Review (his assignment) and says it "is about change - historic change in the way government works."
As Clinton and Gore describe it, one would think that something really new and original had been "reinvented". Actually, back in February, 1968, twenty-five years ago, Robert McNamara, the PPBS export, published a book titled The Essence of Security, Reflections in Office. We have a quote from pae 94 of his book: "One of the first things we did in 1961 was to design a new mechanism which would provide this information and integrate into a single, coherent management system. The product of this effort was the Planning-Programming-Budgeting System, which is now being applied throughout the US Government ..." He was, of course, talking about Program Budgeting because the computers had not yet been created to accomodate Performance Budgeting. However, on page 100 he touches on Performance Budgeting when he mentions of "how to motivate them [the thousands of managers in the field] to do their job more efficiently . And how to determine whether or not they have done so, have always been the most difficult and elusive problems facing the top management." Moving into Performance Budgeting is now supposed to solve that problem.
We should also mention that McNamara did not invent (or reinvent) his management system. He stole it from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs which in 1965 published a manual titled A Manual for Programme and Performance Budgeting. This UN Manual also described the difference between Program Budgeting and Performance Budgeting as follows: "In the adoption of programme and performance budgeting, it is best to introduce the various elements of this approach in evolutionary and orderly fashion. For this purpose a useful distinction might be made between programme budgeting and performance budgeting. In programme budgeting, the principal emphasis is on a budget classification in which functions, programmes, and their subdivisions are established for each agency and these are related to accurate and meaningful financial data. Performance budgeting involves the development of more refined management tools, such as unit costs, work measurement, and performance standards ....In this sense, performance budgeting is an all-inclusive concept embodying programme formulation as well as measurement of the performance of work in the accomplishment of programme objectives." This is where "how the individual thinks, feels and acts" becomes a part of performance budgeting. The "Big Brother" sequence will have been completed when the personalized ID Card which can be read by computer, plus the computerized cashless society are added.
It is obvious that a cautious approach has been made to this dangerous system as it has taken 44 years and the election of President Clinton to introduce this new phase. The system was developed by the United Nations in the early 1950s and was forced on all developing countries. The Soviet Union had been toying with it since the 1920s with their five-year plans and setting top-down targets which proved to be unworkable.
Our correspondent, who had studied the system ever since we first published our series on PPBS in 1972, concludes: "So here we are now with President Clinton [acting on orders from his superiors] locking us into a system that will take us into a "Total Managed Global Society" and pave the way for the "New World Order" under United Nations control. Performance Budgeting following the Crisis created by Program Budgeting will only lead us to Chaos. This system has been forced on every school district and has caused the downfall of our educational system. We are programming students instead of teaching them. Its introduction into the Soviet Union was the cause of its economic collapse. Private industries that have tried it have all gone into an economic crisis unless, like Sears Roebuck they tried it and dumped it in hopes of regaining the public's support.
In 1972 we concluded a series with these words: "And finally, let it be understood that this Revolution means far more than the creation of a new kind of government, it also means the creation of a new society with a new religion and a new god, and a new man with a new conscience and a new set of values. It is to be a computerized society in which the finished products will all think, feel and act the same."
"The beginning of the defense of Freedom is to know the Truth. We hope and pray that we have helped in this defense by presenting these Proofs of a Conspiracy to Build a Total Managed Global Society."
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