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...good health? We better before our economy goes into intensive care. The current rate of health care costs is "threatening to consume an impossible proportion of the gross domestic product." That's not a Bush critic talking. Those are the words of the President's own budget director, Richard Darman...
...control. Bush's budget did include a laconic proposal to cap the relentless growth in such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, but Bush himself glossed over the proposal in his speech, evidently afraid to use the politically charged word entitlement on national television. The next day, Budget Director Richard Darman backed further away from the cap, acknowledging that the White House would gladly abandon the controversial idea if Congress thought it unwise -- as it surely will. Too bad. Congress could go home and congratulate itself, said Republican Congressman Alex McMillan of North Carolina last week, "if we don't pass...
Meanwhile, Skinner is not much better than Sununu was at improving the president's image. The Japan trip was a fiasco, and Skinner let budget director Richard G. Darman talk Bush into stalling on new economic proposals until last Tuesday, during the State of the Union address. The yearly snoozer of a speech was probably watched by lots of people. Some may have even paid attention. None will remember...
...line for emerging technologies. Several senior officials who tried to steer federal help to strategic American industries were quietly relieved of their duties (most notably, former Pentagon technologist Craig Fields). Led by the free-trade triumvirate of Sununu, chief economic adviser Michael Boskin and Budget Director Richard Darman, the White House argued that market forces, rather than government, could best determine which technologies made it from the lab to the shopping mall...
...balance may shift toward the Administration's "do something big" faction, which includes Vice President Dan Quayle, Council of Economic Advisers chairman Michael Boskin and Housing Secretary Jack Kemp. In an appearance before the House Ways and Means - Committee last week, Boskin and Budget Director Richard Darman suggested that Bush would be willing to break the budget agreement to give the economy a shot in the arm by lowering taxes for the middle class. But when the hearings resumed after a luncheon break, Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, leader of the Adminstration's "do as little as possible" faction, differed with...