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...begun to form in front of the austere, dimly lit shop. A panel truck pulls up to the rear entrance, and two burly workers, their white smocks spattered with red stains, deliver their precious cargo: a day's supply of meat. Within three hours, the choicest cuts-pork chops, ham, boneless beef-will be gone. The late arrivals will have to make do with sausage, soup bones or chicken. Or perhaps nothing...
...lean federal budget, pork-barrel politics as usual...
Gunvor Rosen's diet would put a trucker to shame. Several truckers, in fact. Each day the Swede tucks in the equivalent of 15 eggs, 6½ Ibs. of potatoes, 41/2 Ibs. of pork and liver, one package of bacon, four steaks, twelve slices of roast beef, two quarts of ice cream, 1 Ib. of butter, several loaves of bread, 20 quarts of tea and light beer...
Democrats have a better alternative. First, by not adopting the Republican tax cut, we can eliminate a large part of the expected shortfall in government revenues. Then, in addition to curbing the pork-barrel projects already mentioned, we can further reduce the deficit and help control inflation by attacking two of the largest and least scrutinized areas of the Federal budget--tax loopholes and defense spending...
Nevertheless, old ways will be hard to change. Congressmen have always fought ferociously to save pork-barrel water projects, obsolete military bases or other federal favors in their districts. Stockman had a preview of future battles two weeks ago during his Senate confirmation hearings. Democrat James Sasser of Tennessee fretted that Stockman's proposed reforms of federal credit programs would increase the borrowing costs of the Tennessee Valley Authority and boost his constituents' electric bills, while Democrat John Glenn of Ohio was concerned that Stockman offered no special help for his state's steel firms...