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...seemingly perpetual fiscal crisis in the Social Security system exemplifies the sort of mess that responsible partisan politics can get us into Social Security, both parties admit, it in serious trouble. The cost of the program has grown enormously: since 1960 the proportion of the federal budget it consumes has doubled. So far, shuffling money between Medicare, disability insurance, and Social Security has kept the latter program afloat. But by mid-1983, if not extended, the law allowing such tactics will expire. And by 1984, all three funds will be bankrupt. Indeed, the system is projected to run a cumulative...
...broadest terms, White House strategists and leaders of both parties in Congress view the voter message as being aimed primarily at the nation's economic mess. The voters are seen as less interested in blaming anyone than in having something done about the situation. They want unemployment alleviated, the recession ended, the huge deficits curtailed-and they want this done without refueling inflation. That is a tall order, of course, but far from a controversial one. All politicians applaud those goals; the problem is how to reach them...
...what has happened. We began by simply backing a friendly regime; slowly we got more deeply involved; then we started manipulating the regime-sometimes using desperate measures-and now? Now we are bogged down in a war we cannot win and cannot abandon. It's ridiculous. A mess. And but for Brezhnev and company we would never have got into it in the first place." The general had said what many of us involved with Afghanistan-in the KGB, the army and outside-felt but would not stick our necks...
...whole business of becoming a writer is one long shot," Felicia Lamport a satirical writer and playwright said. "I got into this whole mess by just being lucky," Lamport added, explaining that in her college days she was paid $75 to write satires of the school football games...
...trouble containing his excitement. After all, he had won a major victory against Chernenko. But he managed to keep his composure. "Thank you, Comrade Brezhnev for this great honor We will have a most magnificent cake. And Comrade Chernenko, we shall try not to make too much of a mess for you" With that biting remark. Andropov excused himself and rushed home to tell his wife the good news...