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...their staff experts makes it difficult for the House to sustain an institutional understanding of programs that go through generations and keep enlarging each year. "The big Government problem is the information overload at the center," says Stockman. There is just too much for most members of Congress to absorb in too short a time...
...these arguments are fiercely disputed. Stansfield Turner, who was Carter's CIA director, contends that AWACS would hinder rather than increase Saudi security. As he wrote last week in the Washington Post: "There is no way they can absorb AWACS into their military structure without detracting from their primary concerns," which he defined as preparing to combat "insurrection and guerrilla warfare." Indeed, Turner claimed the Saudis' real reason for wanting AWACS is not military but political: "asking us to take an action that would be opposed by Israel" in order "to test whether we would eventually pressure Israel...
Many economists have long considered defense spending inflationary because it increases incomes and demand in the economy without enlarging the supply of goods and services. Military expenditures also absorb capital investment that might have been used to increase productivity in other areas of the economy. The Viet Nam War, for example, is generally blamed for starting the current 15-year-long bout with inflation...
Says the Chicago Center: "Taken alone, each cut seems to be small enough to allow a recipient to absorb it with other income. Taken together, the effects of the cuts are great enough that many families will be unable to meet their monthly living expenses...
...week, including the first of 15 Special Forces Green Berets, along with weapons and equipment, the controversy over stepped-up U.S. aid continued in Washington. Former Ambassador Robert White, recently fired by the Reagan Administration, has repeatedly charged that the Salvadorans did not want or need, and could not absorb, such large amounts of new weaponry. He has also said that the Pentagon exerted considerable pressure on the Duarte regime mostly because the Reagan Administration wanted to make a big show of its opposition to Soviet and Cuban involvement in arming the guerrillas...