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                 REMARKS BY ELMER B. STAATS
          COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
             BEFORE THE 85TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
             OF THE NATIONAL  MUNICIPAL LEAGUE
             DETROIT, MICHIGAN, NOVEMBER 13, 1979

                  RESOURCE SCARCITY IN OUR             g
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                CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

     It is a pleasure for me to be here today and have the

opportunity to meet with some of the Nation's outstanding

civic leaders.  The theme of your Conference - Constructive

Response to Fiscal Constraint - couldn't be more appropriate

for a Deriod when all levels of government are being pressed

to do more with less.  Clearly, the job of managing any

organization experiencing fiscal decline is a difficult and

unrewarding one.  Growth is a creative force that enables

managers and political leaders alike to create goodwill by

expanding opportunities and programs for some or all without

taking away resources from anybody.

SCARCITY AS AN ASCENDENT NATIONAL THEME

     In this country, we have grown up in an economic and

political system which has extolled growth as a benchmark

of organizational success.  In the 1960s expansion and profit-

ability came to those firms whose products and marketing

efforts were most successful.  Similarly, in the world of

bureaucratic politics, program managers have gained advancement

by expanding their programs into veritable empires.

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