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Proposed cutbacks in domestic programs include foodstamps and Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The Head Staff Program for pre-schoolers from low-income families will see a six percent increase as will Medicare, though rising health care costs consume any real increases. A bi-partisan Social Security package will trim the program's growth by increasing payroll taxes and delaying cost of living adjustments to those receiving benefits...
Meese: I think the social security compromise plan, a bi-partisan plan will provide the necessary a forms to handle the social security problem for the foreseeable future. I think at some future time there may be more wide pread or more extensive structural reforms to the system, but I think this will certainly take care of the immediate future and handle the problem for decades to come...
...collections that the federal deficit in fiscal 1983, which started Oct. 1, is now certain to exceed $200 billion. That intensifies the threat that Government borrowing to cover the deficit will gobble up the lendable money needed to finance business investment and consumer buying. A group calling itself the Bi-Partisan Budget Appeal, headed by former Secretary of Commerce Peter Peterson, last week published an ad calling on Reagan to make draconian reductions in the deficit. The ad was signed by five former Secretaries of the Treasury and some 500 top lawyers, academicians and heads of blue-chip corporations...
...recently put his stand-up act on display at an anti-draft rally near Memorial Hall. In between speeches and music, he came on and delivered a well-received series of one-liners in the Rodney Dangerfield mold. A brief sampling "Nancy Reagan, she's really a fine woman, bi: her idea of the Third World is J. C. Penney's. The post office is having problems with the Ronald Reagan stamp they just issued: people keep spitting on the wrong side." Most observers agree that Weinstein's delivery is very professional. "Anders steals more jokes than Milton Berle," says...
Nevertheless, there are more than a few who prefer to substitute hypocrisy for democracy and continue to deny D.C. citizens voting rights. Although the amendment has garnered bi-partisan support, it is an easy target for many who consider the District to be to urban, too liberal, too Black and too Democratic. Attacks have come chiefly from what Klick describes as the radical conservative rightwing groups such as The American Conservative Union, the Conservative Caucus, the Heritage and Liberty foundations." Genuine conservatives generally support the American principle of "one man, one vote," she adds...