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...entertain really rank loans. The government had this free ride for a long time. There were hardly any failures because bankers were not lending in such a way as to fail. And now, paradoxically, when the talk is of cutting back on deposit insurance, the banking system is a mirror image of the system...
...When adults lament the absence of "values," it is worth recalling that children are an honest conscience, the perfect mirror of a society's priorities and principles. A society whose values are entirely material is not likely to breed a generation of poets; anti-intellectualism and indifference to education do not inspire rocket scientists. With each passing day these arguments become more apparent, the needs more pressing. Where is the leader who will seize the opportunity to do what is both smart and worthy, and begin retuning policy to focus on children and intercept trouble before it breeds...
Anyway, I got ready for my date. I wore that new flannel shirt and fished through the drawer for the clean pair of socks I keep for just such occasions. I even did my Frank Burns imitation and checked for nose hairs in the mirror. I left nothing to chance...
Publication of a comprehensive poll by the Times Mirror Co. last week compounded insiders' angst by showing that political dyspepsia has worsened. For instance, 78% say that elected federal officials quickly lose touch with constituents (vs. 73% in a comparable poll three years ago). The proposition that ordinary people lack influence on government action gets agreement from 57%, up 5 points...
...neither signs of hardening alienation nor scattered election returns signal border-to-border upheaval. Norman Ornstein, a consultant on the Times Mirror project, argues, "Linkage between these attitudes and political action hasn't yet been made in most places." One reason is that the Persian Gulf crisis has dominated the news and overshadowed the hard-to-focus outrage at the S&L debacle. Further, many entrenched incumbents raised so much money so early that worthy rivals never entered the fray...