European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 8. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 6 pane of investigate revise we fare system Washington a president Reagan has promised his administration will devise a new strategy for the nation s welfare system with aides saying the idea is not to save Money but to Case the plight of the poor. I Cagan in his state of the Union address tuesday night directed the White House Domestic Council to undertake an evaluation of the current system and devise a plan by dec. 1 to meet the financial educational social and safety concerns of poor  the president who has been the architect of deep cuts in spending on social programs Over the past five years said we must now escape the spider s web of  administration officials said one idea that will be examined is the so called workfare concept which requires those Able to work to perform some Job or train themselves for work in order to be eligible for  that a Way to go we Don t know but 37 states have such a program said a senior administration official briefing report ers at the White  official said the government now is spending Sho billion on programs for the  we were to give everyone who is below the poverty line sufficient Cash touring them up to the poverty line or just above it it would require Only $60 billion the official said. So for $60 billion we re expending $110 billion and we wonder where arc the efficiencies in  we really accomplished anything with the billions we be spent Over the last20, 30, indeed 50 years the official  hungry homeless sick abused and neglected children of America will not beefed housed or healed by a new study of the welfare system said Marian Wright Edel Man president of the children s defense fund a private non profit child advocacy  real test of the president s commit ment to families lies not in the speeches but in the funding she said in a statement after the  administration official said the changes in  in million Sot households b19701982married couples 49.si non family by Crago Tab Una graphic source us. Department government spends $122 billion year not 3110 billion on a variety of 61 Feder Al programs geared to Low income assist Antic official insisted that the new study is not related to the budget and that in intention is to help the needy not save Intis speech Reagan said As we work to make the american dream real for All we must also look to the condition of Amer Ica s families. Struggling parents today worry How they will provide their children the advantages their parents gave them,1 Reagan said. In the welfare culture the break Down of the family the most Basic support system has reached crisis proportions i female and child poverty child abandon ment horrible crimes and deteriorating so after hundreds of billions of dollars in poverty programs the plight of the poor grows More painful Reagan said. But the waste in dollars and cents pales before the most tragic loss the sinful waste of human spirit and potential. Reagan orders probe into medical insurance study Aims to protect families from losing savings i j in Mill not of Nori Ift m Washington a president Reagan expressing concern for the devastating financial Burden that accompanies a catastrophic illness ordered a yearlong study tuesday of How government and Pri vate insurers can join la protect american families from the risk of having life savings wiped out. Reagan in his state of the Union address to Congress said he has directed health and human services Secretary Otis r. Bowen to report to him by year s end on the possibilities. Bowen already has proposed a major expansion of the medicare program paid for in Premium increases o protect the a lion s 30 million medicare beneficiaries. That proposal is expected to be transmitted to Congress within a few weeks. The president s study proposal appears to go considerably further however covering insurance for All american families. Reagan revealed the study As part of his Call to redefine government s role in America. Other study proposals include a whole Sale review of Federal programs for the needy and a program to Deal with Union. Trolled currency fluctuations that aggravate the . Trade deficit. White House Domestic policy adviser John Svahn said 13,000 americans exceed their lifetime medicare coverage limit each year and 280,000 exceed their annual Benefit limit. Among the elderly it is a serious worry that it s going to happen to them he said. But a representative of the insurance Industry said adequate coverage is available at reasonable rates now. Jack o Day president of the insurance economics society said that government. And the private sector have been work ing together very nicely and very adequately indicating no new government program is needed. Senior has officials said earlier that the democrats say president s address glossed Over government s problems Ashington administration will ask Congress to expand medicare to cover the Cost of catastrophic illness among the elderly with the Cost paid by increased premiums. The medicare expansion was proposed to Reagan by Bowen who has said an extra$12 a month Premium payment by medi care beneficiaries would provide unlimited Hospital coverage and Cap out of Pockl doctor Bills at $350 a year. It also would provide belter coverage at a lower Price than the so called Medigap supplemental policies Bowen argues though that Point is sharply contested by the insurance Industry. Between 65 percent and 70 percent of medicare beneficiaries now buy Medigap policies to protect themselves from the expense of catastrophic illness. Bowen said paying Between $500 and $800 a year for the coverage. The Secretary said the new proposal would enable them to acquire comparable and in Many respects Superior benefits at a fraction of the  in in ii iut a v deficit a floundering farm Economy and a sea of foreign Trade red Ink. In a nationally televised response to the evident address the democrats . Be symptoms of serious problems threaten the jobs Ano Ine in of the , which Reagan says his policies Are devised to protect. To present the Democrat c View the Narv turned to former Virginia gov. Gray of Pennsylvania. Mitchell the Cha Man of the Cenate is a troops trained to use them. Strength also requires a eminent desperately needs is Discie. Defense spending has to be reduced let s reduce it. If Domestic spending has to be Cut then let s Cut it. If tax Breaks have to be stopped then let s Stop  Daschle introduced viewers by video tape to the Mcbrayer a South Dakota farm family. He said they face the loss of their land add ing Many policy makers Are now saying they farm families Are no longer  in the face of High interest rates and an overvalued Dollar that has priced american k of duct out of Many foreign markets thee Gan administration is saying Toughluck " Daschle sad. Gray the chairman of the House budget committee said that because of Reagan administration policy the National debt has doubled and we be Jone from being the greatest creditor nation to being the great est debtor nation on  and Woods who showed television View ers the Independence to. Courtroom where Harry Truman was a judge in the Days before his presidency said americans Are ready to make Tough choices in order to get a fair Price for their products Access to markets an education and a decent  have the drive to compete but they need to earn and learn in the jobs of the future she said. Mitchell in a pointed reference to Thelmaree Trade imbalance with Japan said entry that rebuilt Germany and Ter world War ii should not just Mitchell said the United states is losing that fight. In every Market from cars to cameras from Europe to South America even in our own country the Competition is winning he said. Mitchell said the United states must re Spond by increasing productivity and com petition in world markets and by making sure at Home that All americans even the most powerful among us play by the same economic rules saying democrats first proposed tax re form and that the democratic controlled House passed a tax Reform Bill last year Mitchell said that Over the past four years,50 of the nation s largest corporations earning a total of $57 billion in profits did t pay one cent in Federal income tax. In 1983. He added More than 3,000 people with 1983 incomes of More than $1 million also paid no taxes. If that makes you mad it should he said. Because it s wrong. It must be changed. And we re going to change it. Robb told reporters earlier that real efforts to end deficits mean that everything ought to be on the table except paying the interest on the National  Gray responding to questions said the democrats will not on their own raise the question of new taxes. The president is the person who has to Holster the .44 magnum we my Day veto gun before that s going to happen Gray said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foday. Feb. 6,1946 German documents submitted to the War crimes tribunal in Nuernberg disclosed that Hitler feared an Alliance Between world jewry and the Catholic Church and that he ordered his troops entering Paris to wipe out what he called the last jewish Rampart in Europe. 30 years ago foday. Feb. 6, 1956 the Winter olympic games in Cortina Italy have ended. Rus Sia competing in Winter games for the first time since czarist Days finished far ahead of the other competing countries. 20 years ago today. Feb. 6, 1966 a Luna 9 photo of the Moon s surface with remarkable detail was shown on Moscow to. Scientists at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in England called the photos sensational. 10 years ago today. Feb. 6, 1976 Relief supplies arrive Din Guatemala City by the plan Load for victims of a massive earthquake that ripped through Mexico and Central America feb. 4, leaving More than 2,000 dead in Guate Mala