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...time to rebuild. But the question for the team is: with what...
...second time since Andrew tore off into the Gulf of Mexico, George Bush and his entourage descended into the heat and bustle of South Florida, anxious to show their concern and capacity to make things right again. Bush promised to rebuild the gutted Homestead Air Force Base, which pumped about $400 million into the local farm-based economy, though logic suggested it should be closed. Bush also agreed to waive the normal 75-25 federal-local split on disaster costs; Washington will pick up the full...
...Thursday night speech that the Democrats' budget proposals would add $220 billion in federal spending, not counting the cost of Clinton's health-reform package. But that number is spread over four years, and it would go for potentially politically salable projects such as investing $80 billion to rebuild America's infrastructure or helping to finance bridges, roads, an intercity rail system and a nationwide information network...
...partly in his overeagerness to avoid "a Vietnam-like quagmire" that Bush so abruptly suspended Desert Storm. As a result, Saddam Hussein remained in power to slaughter his citizens and rebuild his military. Thus the continuing fixation on the V word has figured decisively in the two great foreign policy failures of the Bush Administration: it was too quick to end the Gulf War, and it has been too slow to mobilize a multinational intervention that might end the Balkan...
...college-aged males who hesitate to face the risks and rigors of military service, the current All-Volunteer Force is the epitome of institutionalized social inequality; the poor boys get paid to get killed, and everyone else stays home. Earnest institutional changes Kaus implies, can and must rebuild society...