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Hats off to Paul Bloom for distributing $4 million to four charities [Feb. 23]. Our country should use more public servants who can pinpoint the problem, slash the red tape and accomplish a worthwhile deed even though the Government hierarchy is indignant and outraged at his action...
Second, the Republicans seek to slash funding for policies that are investments in the future, while leaving intact their own pet porkbarrel programs. They seek to cut the budget for clean alternative energy sources by 75%, while giving the nuclear power program full funding. They cut deeply into support for education and scientific research, while barely touching such boondoggles as water projects and tobacco subsidies. These skewed priorities may serve the Republicans' special interests, but they will certainly harm America's longrun national interest...
Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis broached the plan to auto executives in Detroit late last month. Though the specifics have not been hammered out, the Administration hopes to get the companies to sell harder in overseas markets, put more money into plant modernization and research, improve quality control and slash overhead costs. That would include deep cuts in the ranks of executives. The United Auto Workers will be asked to accept wage restraints, perhaps in return for profit sharing...
...proposals " a strategy of elimination," one education lobbyist said last week that he expects a 75-per-cent reduction in the $40 million Carter had recommended for next year for the social and economic divisions of the NSF. He added that he has learned that Reagan also plans to slash over 60 per cent from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), which funds research in psychology, among other fields...
Officials with NIMH and other agencies have repeatedly declined comment on where Reagan will slash funds and on the possible political motivations of the President's moves. But one source close to the administration said last week he had obtained a memorandum written by Herbert Pardes, director of the NIMH, and circulated within the agency, which separates areas of funding into those that "do not involve social research" and those that "involve social research to some extent...