Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the national debt is approaching $1 trillion, he remarked, raising his arm, that a trillion dollars stacked up in $1,000 bills would make a pile 67 miles high.* At least some opponents in the TV audience were grudgingly impressed. California Leftist Tom Hayden, 40, who opposes the program as inequitable, nonetheless judged Reagan's presentation "one of the most substantial speeches by an American President in my lifetime...
...wonder: Reagan's program lived up to its advance billing in weight and scope. The President made a few last-minute modifications. For instance, he trimmed a cut in food stamp spending next year from $2.5 billion to $1.8 billion. But the changes were not major. His plan has three main components...
...billion-to-$2 billion range next fiscal year, and they add up to very real money: an estimated $41.4 billion in fiscal 1982, $123.8 billion by fiscal 1986. Those proposed savings, moreover, take into account an increase in defense spending, the giant exception to the austerity program. Citing enormous increases in Soviet military outlays since 1970, Reagan asserted, "To allow this imbalance to continue is a threat to our national security...
Over and over, too, people dubious about aspects of the President's plan took to heart Reagan's challenge to come up with a better one. New York City Mayor Edward Koch asserted that the proposals to slash mass transit aid and the food stamp program and eliminate the CETA program to hire the unemployed for public-service jobs "are wrong and must not be implemented." Koch added, however: "I agree that there has to be a reduction in spending. He has thrown down the challenge; it's very reasonable. If we don't like...
Reagan's allies are also preparing to lobby Congressmen in their home districts. Charles Wick, former co-chairman of Reagan's Inauguration committee, plans a closed-circuit TV program during which Administration economists will explain the plan to perhaps 15,000 Reagan loyalists around the country, who will then be expected to evangelize their Congressmen. Some White House aides are prepared to play rougher than that. Says one: "If a Republican doesn't vote for us, he will have one hell of a time getting us into his district to campaign...