Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton were still a student at Georgetown University in Econ 101, his budget might rate a B-minus. The document reflects more honest economic assumptions than any of the Reagan or Bush budgets, whose rosy scenarios quickly wilted under congressional scrutiny. The Clinton budget also shows the agony of an instinctive do-something Democrat caught in the straitjacket of 12 years of federal overspending. At the same time, the budget remains a halfway measure that fails to reflect the cost of health-care reform fully or to address the most intractable problem of federal spending -- middle-class entitlements...
Clinton's first budget does represent the boldest attempt in more than a decade to get a grip on federal spending and bring down the budget deficit. Under the Administration's optimistic numbers, 1995 outlays would rise a modest 2.3% above those of 1994. Under Reagan and Bush, by contrast, federal spending jumped an average of 6.3% a year. Moreover, the budget would cut government spending to 21.6% of the country's gross domestic product, the lowest level since 1979. And the deficit would shrink to just 2.1% of GDP by 1999, down from 4% when Clinton took office...
Allison said he will continue consulting for Perry much as he did for Caspar W. Weinberger '38, secretary of defense under former President Ronald Reagan. Allison said he would return to teaching next fall...
...expression of a younger generation, and every younger generation needs its expression and thank God They're expressing it," People had been politically inactive and dead before ACT-UP came alive and I think that ACT-UP was one of the reasons that ultimately the Bush-Reagan years fell. They were the first group out in the streets before other people, saying. "This is fucked up; this will not pass...
...really just looking for sex--or if they were, it was because they had really gotten into Indian philosophy, They didn't really throw up after binging on booze and pot--or if they did, it didn't feel all that bad. They didn't really vote for Reagan in 1980--or if they did, it was because he confused and manipulated them...