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Indeed, it seems likely that the pivotal figure in this year's battle of the budget will be not the President but the Secretary of Defense. It was Weinberger who persuaded Reagan to reject pleas that the Administration pare its military-spending requests sharply before presenting them to Congress. Consequently, the man once known as Cap the Knife (when he was President Nixon's Budget Director) has become the target of congressional budget cutters. After a meeting last week at which Republican Senators could not get the Secretary to yield a dollar, Mark Hatfield of Oregon termed Weinberger "a draft...
Weinberger's technique in selling his budgets is simplicity itself: arrive at a total and keep insisting that it is uncuttable. Every year at budget time, other Administration operatives pressure Weinberger to pare back his spending request. The President invariably sides with Weinberger. He continues to think of him as Cap the Knife, a budgetmaker who does not ask for anything that is not necessary. Says Frank Carlucci, Weinberger's deputy for two years and now a Sears, Roebuck executive: "It's that constituency of one that makes all the difference...
...Administration proposal, which would replace the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 that expires next Sept. 30, would sharply pare back subsidies over the next five years. It would slash price-support levels and phase out payments that now bolster the earnings of producers of such major commodities as wheat and corn. In addition, it would cut federal outlays to growers who are paid to leave their land fallow in order to hold down the supply of crops and thus keep prices firm...
Unless Congress takes action, the budget deficit is expected to rise inexorably from $197 billion next year to $308 billion by 1989. The Brookings proposal would pare the deficit to $145 billion next year and push it down to only $20 billion by the end of the decade. Carefully balanced, the plan calls for spending reductions of $92 billion, equally divided between defense and domestic cuts, and tax increases of $108 billion in 1989. Lower interest costs on the national debt would save another $88 billion that year...
Before the 16th century barbers, in addition to cutting hair, acted as part-time surgeons--treating wounds, pulling teeth and bloodletting--because early physicians didn't want to deal with the untidiness of surgery. In fact, the father of modern surgery. Ambroise Pare, began his career as a barber of sorts...