Word: budgets
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...doing it to themselves again. On Wednesday, with a flourish of vows from House hardhead Tom DeLay and a banner reading "Stop Robbing Social Security," the GOP launched a $2 million nationwide advertising campaign called "Stop the Raid." It's their latest big idea to finally win a budget fight with Bill Clinton: Accuse Clinton and the Democrats, over and over, of planning to raid the pension system's trust funds to pay for Big Government spending programs. With that $792 billion tax cut languishing on a far-back burner, "Stop the Raid" is the GOP's last...
...general, third party candidates can serve an important function in a two-party electoral system. For one thing, third parties often address issues that other two parties won't. In 1992, H. Ross Perot attacked both Republicans and Democrats for their refusal to discuss the nation's burgeoning budget deficit...
...variety of possible candidates makes it difficult for the party to establish a coherent platform. There is even uncertainty in the party on budget policy and paying down the national debt, previously one of the party's most central platforms. Buchanan, for one, wants a tax cut that exceeds the already-irresponsible Republican proposal vetoed by President Clinton last week...
...biological sciences have done best in the budget contests, with the National Institutes of Health emerging relatively unscathed. Although medical research can be lifesaving, Rudenstine and the University have rightly called for a more even distribution of research funding, which ensures that the physical and applied sciences are not left behind...
Teaching hospitals operate as non-profits and give charity care as well as educate a new generation of doctors. Rapid advancement in science and technology claim much of the responsibility for the economic prosperity and the budget surplus Congress is presently enjoying, and much of that advancement may owe its origin to funding decisions made decades ago. University research funded by the Defense Department developed the protocols that made the Internet possible and may have fundamentally changed the nature of the economy. It would be foolish to starve the next decades of similar innovation in other fields to achieve arbitrary...