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...competition for good jobs, possibly even without as much crime. But the labor force, which will grow at a slower pace, may also find itself without the ability to sustain U.S. economic expansion or support an increasingly elderly population. "Business is going to be discombobulated," says Demographics Analyst Ben Wattenberg of the American Enterprise Institute. "I see the housing industry tearing its hair out. I see problems in the military. I see enormous problems headed this way with Social Security and retirement...
...pollster, Richard Wirthlin, whose studies show these citizens far beyond the norm in education, income and political involvement. They are shielded from most economic shocks by the deep pockets of the U.S. Treasury; the deficit may be alarming, but the Federal Government is not about to close down. Wattenberg found that during the 1980-83 recession, the number of practicing lawyers grew from 32,000 to 39,000, trade association employees from...
...like James J. Kilpatrick toss out the phrase to register contempt for a federal complex preoccupied with its own navel. William Safire says the phrase connotes something "of interest to tea-leaf readers of Washington goings-on but (is) strictly a yawner to the World Out There." Author Ben Wattenberg defines "inside the Beltway" as the "exponential expansion of what used to be the Georgetown cocktail party--elitism that has lost touch...
...Wattenberg, another of Johnson's young brain-trusters, has a book coming out titled The Good News Is the Bad News Is Wrong. Using census data, polls and economic research, Wattenberg concludes that any way you measure values and quality of life, America comes out a "pretty strong and healthy society." He believes that programs like those L.B.J. started have done wonderfully well but that Washington, which needs despair to feel useful, refuses to see the successes clearly. "Back in the 1970s we went through a period of 'the carcinogen of the month,' from Love Canal...
...Ethics are low in this town, says John Merriam, publisher of a newsletter about the Washington media. "There just ain't no political standards." Debate positions normally are taken from the previous public stands of the candidates. Says Ben Wattenberg, a political analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute: "Maybe the person who turned over the papers saved a Reagan research team an awful lot of trouble...