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...years Republicans have been repeating their mantra -- "The problem isn't that taxes are too low; the problem is that spending is too high" -- without actually proposing enough real spending cuts to bring the deficit under control. President Reagan never did. President Bush never did. Is Kasich the man to make an honest woman at last of the G.O.P.? Skeptics have claimed for years that you can't cure the deficit without demanding significant sacrifice from the great middle class. Has Kasich discovered a budgetary philosophers' stone...
...these things to myself like a mantra," says Gates of the planned professorships...
...Oakland, California. It was Dellums who consistently slashed away at Defense expenditures, voted to cut the number of B-2 bombers down to 20 when the Pentagon wanted 130, helped knock back the budget for the Strategic Defense Initiative and voted to trim U.S. military presence in Europe. His mantra: some of the billions spent on defense could be better spent elsewhere -- such as on the poor and the disadvantaged...
...Great Society programs begun by Lyndon Johnson, Head Start seemed the most ennobling. What could be worthier than tending to the education and health of America's preschoolers? Over time, the program has achieved wide popularity, and the pledge to "fully fund" it has become a kind of mantra among politicians across the ideological spectrum. Yet full funding has remained a dream -- until now. "We all know Head Start . . . is a success story," Bill Clinton told Congress last month. "We all know that it saves money, ((and)) under ((my)) plan every eligible child will be able to get a head...
...know that Clinton demands responsibility and sacrifice from Americans everywhere. The campaign mantra of "change" has been replaced by a new one: "contribution." And most Americans are willing to accept "shared sacrifice." However, Americans deserve more than buzzwords. We deserve serious fiscal discipline from our irresponsible federal government...