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Maybe the next President can muddle through four years without either a crisis or a dramatic effort to avert one. But Reagan was right in 1981: a society, like an individual family, cannot live beyond its means indefinitely. In fact, if it wants to prosper and grow, it cannot even live at its means. It must save and invest for the future. We have not been doing that, and unless this changes we will suffer for it, even if the suffering takes the form of slow stagnation rather than some bloodcurdling cataclysm...
More important than the particulars are the principles that should guide the revenue hunt. First is that the deficit gap cannot be closed painlessly by George Bush's proposed "flexible freeze" or by Michael Dukakis' proposed war on tax cheats. In either case, the numbers just...
...cannot bring new partners from the moon. Yes, the people remain the same. The question is not with whom we negotiate. The question is what we negotiate...
...full of sympathy for them. It is tragic that they must wait 30 or 40 years for an apartment, that they cannot afford so many things that the rest of the world has. If the young ones start shouting and demonstrating, well, that is the right of youth. I would also be shouting if I were them. I would make Walesa's life harder...
...unrest is placing Gorbachev in an increasingly difficult position. If the Soviet leader meets Armenian demands, he risks fanning nationalist sentiments that smolder across the country. But if he cannot resolve the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, opponents may argue that the strife exposes the dangers of letting Soviet citizens speak their minds so freely. Both sides may have a point. As Armenian protesters continued to speak out last week, some went so far as to call for Armenian secession from the Soviet Union unless Nagorno-Karabakh can be annexed...