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...this deficit is that in the out years -- that is 1997, 1998 and beyond -- it also looks bigger than they originally thought, given the assumptions on health care. Now I think we can fix a lot of that. People know it took 12 years to get into this trough we're in. And I think they'll tolerate taking maybe eight years to get out of it. But I need to put together a framework that goes beyond the typical discussion of long...
...spent more time on this inquisition than was eaten up by traffic at La Guardia. Short of couples therapy, will nothing get us out of this trough? Maybe the Washington comment is a way out, a four-lane expressway to freedom...
...nonsense way. Chicago investor Zell would give companies an "absolute deadline" of one year to reorganize or go out of business. "By having little discipline, you create a huge playing field for a lot of ghouls to make a living," he says. "They're all feeding at the trough." For all the richness of his metaphors, Zell has a point. Tight deadlines could curb Chapter 11 abuses by encouraging companies to get out of court quickly and return to the business of surviving in the marketplace without life support. Or, if that's impossible, to close up shop and allow...
Carey vowed to rid the union of Mob influence. His most effective campaign poster showed three pigs with their snouts buried in a trough of dollar bills. It read, THEY'RE FEASTING ON YOUR DUES. Carey painted his opponents as part of "the Old Guard" that was controlled by mobsters. In his victory speech he reiterated his promise: "To those who think that the Mafia is in charge, the party's over." Carey's first order as union president was to cut the job's $225,000 annual salary...
...folks have been gobbling up the welfare budget while blaming someone else. But it's worse than that. If we look at Social Security, which is another form of welfare, although it is often mistaken for an individual insurance program, then whites are the ones who are crowding the trough. We receive almost twice as much per capita, for an aggregate advantage to our race of $10 billion a year -- much more than the $3.9 billion advantage African Americans gain from their disproportionate share of welfare. One sad reason: whites live an average of six years longer than African Americans...