Media Advisory: UNH Faculty
Experts Available to Comment on President Bush's State of the Union
Address
Contact:
Erika Mantz, 603-862-1567
Sharon Keeler, 603-862-1566
UNH Media Relations
January 20, 2004
The following experts from the University of New Hampshire are
available to comment on President Bush's State of the Union address
today (Jan. 20) and the morning after the address.
B. Thomas Trout
Professor of Political Science
Areas of expertise: foreign policy, terrorism, intelligence and
security policy
Office: 603-862-2062
Cell: 603-591-1652
Tom Trout's experience includes three command tours and active
duty assignments in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations,
Office of the Director of Naval Intelligence, Analysis Division;
Naval Operations Intelligence Center; and the Center for Naval Warfare
Studies, U.S. Naval War College. He has published books on national
security affairs and the politics of global resources.
James Wible
Associate Dean of Business and Economics
Areas of expertise: coherence of economic issues, monetary policy,
debt/balanced budget, ethics Office: 603-862-3324
Wible's research publications include more than 30 articles and
the 1998 book, “The Economics of Science - Methodology and
Epistemology As If Economics Really Mattered.”
Ross Gittell
Associate Professor of Management
Areas of expertise: business development and innovation,
entrepreneurship, employment generation, equity and collaborative
cross-sector (public-private) efforts.
Office: 603-862-3340
Gittell is lead project investigator on “An Analysis of the
Potential Economic and Social Benefits of Air Quality Information
and Forecasts” for the U.S. Department of Commerce, National
Atmospheric & Oceanic Administration.
Robert S. Woodward
Forrest D. McKerley Professor of Health Economics (appointments
in the Department of Health Management and Policy and the Department
of Economics)
Area of expertise: general health care plans, health economics and
prescription drug plans
E-mail: rsw@unh.edu
Office phone: 603-862-7032
Home phone number is 659-6239 (available to comment after Bush's
address)
Robert Woodward has been teaching health economics and health care
finance at all university levels for almost 30 years. He has worked
in HCFA's Office of Legislation and Policy on administrative cost
issues and in the Department of Health Education and Welfare's Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Woodward's
currently funded research attends to socio-economics and pharmaco-economics.
Woodward's Comments: “In general, I am depressed
by my perception that Bush seems able to persuade the American public
that his tax cuts, his war, his space plan, and his medical reforms
are visionary, when if implemented they would burden next-generation
Americans with thousands of dollars annually in interest payments
(to say nothing about debt repayments). When presented by the President
with things that sound too good to be true, Americans focus on the
fantasy and ignore the fact that they are too good to be true.
“All of which is to say that Bush SHOULD be addressing the
deficit that the tax cuts, the war, the space plan, and the Medicare
reforms are imposing on future generations.”
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