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People like pop culture -- that's what makes it popular. Movies drenched in sex and gore, gangsta rap, even outright pornography are not some sort of alien interstellar dust malevolently drifting down on us, but products actively sought out and beloved by millions. When fighting to abolish the NEA and other government support for the arts, conservatives are quick to condemn "cultural alitism" and exalt the majority tastes served by the marketplace. So how can they turn around and blame entertainment corporations for following the money and giving mass audiences what they want? Talk about alitism...
...trillion during the next seven years. A House plan foresaw even deeper cuts: $1.4 trillion worth, the extra trims needed to offset a $350 billion tax cut. The G.O.P. lawmakers said they would chop billions from projected outlays for Medicare and Medicaid, eliminate scores of federal social programs and abolish the Commerce Department. (House Republicans would also ax the Education and Energy departments.) Democrats promptly labeled the proposals unfair to working families, the elderly and the poor, and warned that the cuts were dangerous for the economy...
Thompson and State Rep. Timothy J. Toomey Jr. (D-Cambridge) shepherded the city's home-rule petition to salvage some forms of rent control for low-income tenants following the passage of a state referendum last fall to abolish...
Specter attacked the extreme right wing of the party for attempting to infringe upon America's historical separation between church and state and for trying to abolish religious freedom...
...other deductions. One such plan is sponsored by House majority leader Dick Armey of Texas and another by Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a candidate for his party's nomination for President. Another presidential hopeful, Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, last week announced his plan to abolish both the income tax and the irs in favor of a national retail-sales tax, to be collected by the states. Under his system, Lugar said, "the money you earn is yours. You need not account for it, report it or hide it ... You are no longer guilty until you prove your innocence...