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...from 64% to 76% of the federal budget. Thus less than one-quarter of the budget is subject to paring-unless and until Congress is prepared to curb the uncontrollables. They seem politically sacrosanct because they are mostly transfer payments that go directly to citizens-for Social Security, Medicare, public assistance, veterans' benefits, civil service and military retirement funds. Nobody wishes to deprive further the aged and infirm, the poor and the ill. Yet the total bill for these benefits is expanding faster than the rate of inflation. Almost all legislators agree that the growth of Government spending should...
...wearying of inflation, regulation and budget busting. They realize that those three mighty forces have impeded investment and caused the nation to fall behind, and they may be ready to support the courageous political leader who will tackle the special interests headon. In times of such ferment, the public may well be prepared to accept fairly radical steps. Some possibilities...
...over soaring prices, workers are pressing for higher wages, and the White House is looking for someone, or something, to blame for its losing battle against inflation. In these circumstances, last week's report of an earnings surge created a serious political dilemma for President Carter and a public relations migraine for business...
Undoubtedly, these rapidly opening biochemical avenues will place awesome powers in the hands of psychiatrists. The prospective drugs of the future could, of course, be used to create a Huxleian nightmare. But, in capable hands and under public scrutiny, they need not. At the very least, the drugs may give psychiatry the bold new tools that will enable it to shake off its own current depression and fulfill the high hopes that Freud and his followers correctly held...
...that she was not. To radicals, feminists and homosexuals, psychiatry is just one more villainous agent of the status quo. More than a century ago, an antebellum psychiatrist blithely explained that slaves who tried to escape from their masters were suffering from "dromomania," the runaway disease. How does the public know that 20th century psychiatry is not still retailing dromomania in more sophisticated guises...