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This proposed budget magic drew widespread skepticism, including George Bush's "voodoo economics" charge during the 1980 presidential primaries. Yet by 1981 Congress was eager to find a way to pump up the sagging economy. When Reagan sent Congress his tax-cut proposal, the lawmakers squabbled over the details but eventually gave the President virtually everything he wanted. In the end, the Economic Recovery Tax Act slashed personal-income tax rates 23% over three years. Reaganomics was supposed to produce a budget surplus of $500 million by 1984, but one of the Administration's master strategists, Budget Director David Stockman...
...Republican side, Robert Dole displayed artful footwork in distancing himself from the Administration, while George Bush thrashed about, entangled in voodoo economics. Highly visible as Senate minority leader, Dole projected the image of a concerned legislator ready to negotiate on the deficit. While skirting talk of a tax increase, Dole deftly tossed darts at the White House, describing himself as a "hands-on person. I don't let anything happen in my office that I don't know about...
...Believers, a movie doing its best to defy description at any length, has some potential in this regard. It posits a Caribbean voodoo cult that offers unlimited worldly power to people willing to sacrifice their young sons in its rituals. And it brings a newly widowed father (Martin Sheen) and his son (Harley Cross) into menacing proximity with the evildoers. A well-made horror film would focus tightly on the son's menaced innocence and force us to share the father's fears as the portents of doom gather about him, his ferocity when at last he must defend...
...errors has never, of course, been part of the Reagan magic. For six years, as America's debt soared past $2 trillion, the President refused to admit that George Bush was right when he said during the 1980 primaries that trying to balance the budget by cutting taxes was "voodoo economics...
...cups. Fast talking slicks in white tuxedoes, looking like Elvis Presley's manager admitting Priscilla's age at a press conference, wait outside strip joints, holding the doors open for tantalizing glimpses of the flesh within On the sidewalks young entrepreneurs hawk shoeshines, "SHIT HAPPENS-on Bourbon St." sweatshirts, voodoo masks, even chances at the venerable shell game. And out of doors and windows on every side pour dribbles and gobs of the freshest music scene in the world...