Word: debts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other students I know even flaunt their ignorance, as if their selfish insularity were a personal point of pride. I do not understand how people can play hours of video games without knowing who is running for president of the United States or the shocking significance of the federal debt in their lives...
This year, we as a nation will have to decide the future of Medicare--a program that has forced our debt to rocket into the trillions. We as a nation will have to rein in the costs of this program that has taken from the struggling young to give to the well-off aged...
...government might not be able to do this." Speculators are already counting on a dose of pump-priming. The Dow soared 76 points Tuesday on expectations that the Federal Reserve would lower interest rates in an attempt to jump-start the economy. (A decision is expected Wednesday.) "With consumer debt at an all-time high, people feel tapped out," notes McWhirter. "They aren't as optimistic, and they aren't going to be spending as much...
...fact, his campaign owes a debt to Gingrich, who in 1994 did the most to convince people that the government had replaced the Soviets as their mortal enemy: it overtaxed its citizens, divided families, squandered the nation's resources and disseminated softheaded values. But a year after their declaration of war, Gingrich and Dole lie bloodied in the budget trenches, and the political climate is if anything more divisive, unpleasant and ineffective than at any time in memory. Pollsters find that voters are at once unsated and disgusted: if the Republicans have faltered, the resentment against Washington politicians remains more...
...heart of his fiscal crusade is his flat tax, a plan derided as "deja voodoo" by economists who blame Reagan's supply-side tax cuts for the explosion of the national debt. He has captured perfectly the fury Americans feel for a system they think treats them like suckers while the rich enjoy a secret tax code written just for them--notwithstanding that his flat tax could favor the rich even more effectively. But his appeal is not only to apparent fairness and simplicity, the allure of a tax return no bigger than a postcard. The plan is also...