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...shrinking some 300 programs and eliminating more than 100 others. Everyone from poor families who receive home-heating assistance to communities hard hit by layoffs would feel the pinch. Indeed, as Clinton declared in a statement that contained both a boast and more than a touch of rue, the document represents "the toughest budget in spending cuts that Congress has yet seen...
...Clinton were still a student at Georgetown University in Econ 101, his budget might rate a B-minus. The document reflects more honest economic assumptions than any of the Reagan or Bush budgets, whose rosy scenarios quickly wilted under congressional scrutiny. The Clinton budget also shows the agony of an instinctive do-something Democrat caught in the straitjacket of 12 years of federal overspending. At the same time, the budget remains a halfway measure that fails to reflect the cost of health-care reform fully or to address the most intractable problem of federal spending -- middle-class entitlements...
Altogether the budget was a remarkably restrained document for a President who truly believes in the power of government to do good -- the first such President since Lyndon Johnson. It showed clearly how Clinton, under the pressure of spending caps first enacted in 1990 and reinforced last year, has adopted the traditionally Republican issues of austerity and deficit reduction. "When it comes to eliminating unnecessary programs," declared Senate minority leader Robert Dole, "Clinton may enjoy more support from Republicans than from members of his own party...
More worrisome is the shortfall between those cocaine and heroin addicts who desperately need treatment and those who will actually get it. Depending on which Administration document one reads, the total number of needy addicts ranges between 1.1 million and 2.7 million people. Whatever the best guess, Clinton's new dollars will aid only 74,000 addicts. "It's inexplicable," says Mathea Falco, who ran the Carter Administration's interdiction efforts as the first Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters. "Everyone in the field, and Clinton too, knows the supply-side efforts have largely failed. Clinton's effort...
...through every single document Harvard presented, and not one accurately characterizes what was going to happen," Edward S. Walter, the lecturer's husband, said at the hearing...