Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...planning meetings, Administration officials had held out the thin hope of achieving Carter's 1976 campaign promise of a balanced budget for 1981. That goal soon ran into this year's election politics. One of the prime candidates for the ax, for example, was the revenue-sharing program under which Washington doles out $6.9 billion annually to state and municipal governments. The program has been severely criticized as an unnecessary subsidy to local and state authorities, who often have more spare cash and enjoy sounder fiscal conditions than the Federal Government. But Governors and mayors launched a full...
Many proposed cuts are the perennial windmill-tilting attacks on items like the Beekeeper Indemnity Program, which pays anyone whose bees have been damaged by Government-approved insecticides; the Impact School Aid plan, which makes grants to some of the nation's wealthiest school districts; and child nutrition programs that benefit upper-and middle-income families. But all these proposed $9.7 billion budget reductions are not likely to pass Congress. Says one senior budget maker: "The chances of getting rid of that money for beekeepers are zero, but this is exactly the kind of thing we must...
...Last year the Administration tried to slow the increases of these expenditures by proposing reductions in Social Security, disability and other grants-phasing out survivors' benefits for well-to-do students over 18 years of age, for example. Significant tampering with the nation's most popular social program, however, quickly died on Capitol Hill...
...combination of continued strong inflation and higher federal spending ruled out any relief. Warned the President in his State of the Union message: "The urgency of the anti-inflation fight requires that we defer such tax reduction at this time." Thus the Administration's guns-plus-butter spending program is being paid for by still heavier tax loads. Says Republican Congressman Barber Conable: "That's the Carter strategy: to balance the bud get by tax up-creep." The President's skillfully crafted election year strategy of higher federal spending combined with steep taxes, however, could still...
...education at Dubuque's Clarke College, Farrell (she prefers not to be called "sister") has sat on the five-member city council since 1977. Sophisticated? Well, she enjoys an occasional Manhattan, plays golf, and as a Jimmy Carter Democrat, comprehends the intricacies of Iowa politics. Says Farrell, whose program includes better highways, a downtown shopping mall and an industrial park for Dubuque: "You can do as much or as little as you want in my position. I plan to keep moving...