Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budget. The last to be called on was House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "Mr. Speaker," said the President, "I save you for last. I've got to get my marching orders from you." O'Neill said he had spent more than 40 years fighting for social programs for the poor, and he added: "I didn't become Speaker to strip them." Replied the President, "I don't intend to. We're going to get the fat out." Then he added, "We've got a tough road. I know that...
Tougher than even he may think. His meeting with the leaders was only a prelude to the turbulent battles that will now begin over national priorities-battles between, to take one mighty example, those who want to cut the fat from social programs they feel have not worked well and those who want to search for lard in the military's billions. Carter's State of the Union address and his budget message would serve as the wick to ignite for the congressional session ahead all the contending political factions and the brawling special-interest groups...
...political rituals designed more for personal identity by the combatants than real evaluation of where we are headed. The AFL-CIO's George Meany stormed that the whole budget was an attack on "average Americans." Former Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Wilbur Cohen called the small adjustments in Social Security "tragic, unsound." And by the end of the week, Congress's Black Caucus had declared the budget "immoral." Each critic seemed blindfolded, feeling a leg of the elephant and calling it a tree...
...People are still yelling and screaming," Karen L. Zweig, a labor advocate for the State Social and Economic Opportunity Council, said yesterday. She added, though, that "I haven't heard any serious plans for doing anything...
...they won't have to persuade North House, because that House committee last month issued a statement criticizing the ACSR for "not performing its function of discussing the moral and social consequences of Harvard's investment policies...