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...opposition to the Reagan agenda; it is a worthy and well-conceived democratic measure in its own right. Some of the legislators sounding out support for the idea are the very ones who have opposed most vigorously the cutting of social spending under Reagan. It is not a "panacea" for them, and even if it is used (improperly, we believe) by others to justify a further decline in social spending, the program would still put young people to invaluable use rejuvenating inner cities, cleaning and preserving federal lands, and feeding, teaching, and aiding disadvantaged citizens from Watts to Appalachia...
This well-intentioned plan not only violates civil liberties, but it is a false panacea which fails to address the root of the problems which Hart and Toricelli aim to solve...
DECENTRALIZATION is not the panacea to the programs' ills. Funds earmarked for bilingual education must be augmented to meet the needs of all the students it was designed to help. Currently, there is no effective means of insuring that bilingual programs are being offered to all non-English speaking students. While approximately 3100 schools provide bilingual programs, the type of services offered are by no means uniform. Some schools offer full bilingual classroom instruction and others provide only bilingual counseling...
...effort was jinxed at the outset because of her choice of Narada Michael Walden as producer. Walden (who worked with Jeff Beck and helped turn the legendary ax man on to the panacea of disco) here has so little faith in Franklin's raw talents that he keeps drowning her vocals in a sea of special effects. The tracks on Who's Zoomin' skitter back and forth between different styles, from pop to soulful sassiness to coolly hip. The emphasis is always on Walden's pyrotechnical studio tricks...
However, despite its simplicity, the line-item veto promises less, both to Congress and to the cause of a balanced budget, than the panacea it has been made out to be. It is too superficial and has too many potential side effects to cure our budgets' ills. Congress should defer to its better judgement and resist this instance of political quackery...