European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 columns the stars and stripes thursday. October 17. 1985 today s crossword sen. Kier Cli m. Dirksen expounds during an Impromptu news conference in inc Senate press Jailer in l 64. Dirksen s Law is no longer valid of r ssi . is York mrs. of 1 re non Milts the National debt is approaching .52 Iril Hon. A i s she does t know Whai is trillion looks like much less 5 asks for in help. I once read slut sen. m. Dirksen. Scolding inc Senate for adding millions of dollars to a Money Bill so i hey could All jct re Csc Clad. . A million dollars Here and a million dollars there and pretty soon pc to Lumen. You re talking about real Money is his Siruc is s2 trillion real Money yes. Mrs. . The late senator dirkson did once a something very close to inc line you quote. Not however until after the Senate had added a few million Dol Lars for the slate of Illinois where he was facing a Tough re election Campaign dirkson s Law was accepted for Many years As a Garcal profundity. Often while Volin each other dozens of fresh millions in keep their Back Home folks Happy Scanion cited dirkson s Law in subtly self Conga Eulaio by context that was not lost on their constituents the message conveyed to voters was that they were getting so Many silly millions heaped upon them Hal it added up to real Money. We now know of course thai inc Dirksen Law a million Here a million there and pretty soon you re talking about real Money is in valid if applied to an infinite number of millions this explains Why mrs s k. Cannot imagine what is trillion looks like one Liun dollars. Mrs. . Is not real Money. I Ike the Light year the trillion is an abstruse philosophical idea that can interest Only persons with a mor bid interest in mathematics. This explains Why most people go Limp with boredom when told that the nation Al debt will soon be $2 trillion or s20 trillion or $200 trillion. The incomprehensible is incomprehensible no Mailer How Jou number it. This is where president Reagan has once again out fitted his critics. They arc trying to outrage and alarm us about the Sie of inc debt he has run up in less than five years bul the Only people who can understand what they re talking Aboul Are mathematician. I our or five years ago the debt was still Way Down there in the hundreds of billions. Not Many of us had a firm grip on the billion bul we did know it was a Power Ful Siple of Money. Oil people had billions you could even guess what it would be like to have .1 billion. You would buy some Clits and castles Niave take up horseback Riding open a swis Bank account col Lect Kumb Ralls. Save an opera company from bankruptcy a billion seemed like a Nice number to have in dollars bul Sou would have haled owing it to anybody and Here was the United states government owing hundreds of the things and getting in deeper every Clay and where was the government going to get the Cash to meet the Bill they were going to get it from you and me who Between us did not have a single billion. It was worrisome. Pretty soon the debt hit one thousand billion dollars that was truly worrisome or would have been if some one had not pointed out that one thousand billion can also be called a trillion. The significance of his was lost on everybody bul the president. Democrats said a one Tho Sanim illion Dollar debt was insufferable and should be reduced by raising taxes. Republicans and Den rats alike said ii could also be Cut by slowing Down the arms race. The pics ident Musl shake his head in Ama Mcm Athow easy it is to outbox these people. Raise taxes what american Ever loved his president for the taxes he raised Cut Back the armament buildup1 that would mean economic hardship for general dynamics. 1-Lcctrtc, United technologies. Mcdonnell Douglas. Raythelon , Lockheed Hughes. Hoeing a company called try and hundreds More As Well As their work forces and All the Stales that lived off the Arma Mcnol Boom. What once been the military Industrial Complex had now become the entire nation. Reagan knew Why that nation loved him As it had loved few persons since Shirley Temple outgrew her curls. Instead of raising taxes and blocking Gravy sluices he blithely let the Al trillion debt double. The result Mast of us go Limp with boredom. The billion we could almost understand bul the trillion is beyond All human comprehension. Reagan had seen the fallacy in Dirksen s Law. Lie understood that if you Ani ended it a thousand billion Here a thousand billion there pretty soon you would t be talking Aboul real Money any More. B Al . 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