European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes monday january 27, 1986 . Becoming nation of addicts p b by James consider for a moment the verb Fourn to be and by definition in Means to become habitually or obsessively devoted in something. The word carries Cunnutt Alioff of surrender and dependency. My Pessi mistic thought fur today is hint we have become a nation of addicts. In one fashion or another we have be come addicted to Federal Aid or Federal by Nsefik or Federal favors. The insidious drug Lias us hooked. Recently Congress was wrestling Wilh lax reforms deficit reduction the Hunt Bill and the superfund Bill the mcaiiire.1 Sharii a common Bond. In every in a time. Inc animating Force behind particular provisions vim the insistent me. What s in in for me. Me. Me it in a perennial Iheme on Capitol Hill Bill this year it Lias Een sounded More loudly than Ever the place is swarming with lobbyists for every interest under the Sun every interest. Lha a save the National inheres a. The Devil Lake National interest the farm Bill offers Jin example. God knows one has in sympathise Voith tic american Farmer. He buys a retail and Sells at wholesale the Price of everything he has to buy keeps going up fertilizer fencing farm equipment and the Price he gets keeps relatively going Down lie is the victim of contradictory farm policies Uver the pail 30 years. Now he s on whal amounts to Public welfare. Will the farm bloc agree to any effective program of withdrawal no sir. No sir most of our Farmers arc addicted. We will go on buying billions of pounds of cheese Butler and dried milk for which inc taxpayers have no use wll Cvar. The subsidies to Honey producers wholly unjustified subsidies will continue for is least four years. The Bee keepers want theirs theirs theirs the sugar program rips off american Consumers to the tune of billions of i ullars a year the in percent loan rate on sugar will continue through 1 989 or 1990. Peanuts soybeans Rice Wool mohair you mime it someone s looking after it. Out in Seattle the other Day i finry Cisneros was moan ing pitifully about reduction in Federal Aid to american municipalities. Cisneros is mayor of Sun Antonio. He s the incoming president of inc National league of cities. He sees it Prospect of for the past 30-Odd years he cities have revealed in All kinds of programs of Federal Aid Federal Aid for sewage Federal Aid for water sys Lynh. Feder Al Aid for Law enforcement Federal Aid for local schools and libraries and symphony orchestras. The cities have had nil the fun of spending Money without inc pain of raising it. They re hooked. The addiction is rampant within our business comm Nily. Industries have benefited for Only a few years from certain la loopholes and concessions but to hear the howling you would a link the founding fathers had Wal ten accelerated Cost recovery Inlo the . Constitution. The folks from Anilak Are in Llibre hustling. Their argument is that in would Cost More to do away with the red Ink railway Ihan to keep in going while it runs they get theirs theirs theirs the education lobby has been working furiously to Spand not to diminish but to expand the program of student Aid. Nothing is More important icy say than an educated citizenry. So too with the lobby for health care. The old folks arc the loudest. Some weeks ago 1 dast to endorse a 3 percent Cap on Cost of living adjust ments for social Security. Three Hundred letters poured in Alt but 20 or 25 of them filled with outrage. Old couples want ours ours ours. Just before thanksgiving in a Middle of the night session three members lied these Nale into parliamentary Knols. J. James Lixon of Nebraska John Melcher of Montana and Tom Hyrkin of Iowa were unrelenting it was 3 o clock in the morning. We arc doing what rethink is fundamentally necessary to our people said Eson. Right. This is the Way Republican government is supposed to work in our democracy. In works so Well that we have a debt ofs2 trillion and we have a nation of addicts. 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