European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 columns the stars and stripes thursday february 13, 1986 Alo Menf of truth on a bed of pain by Russell Baker in the third week of what had once been Only a cold i was lying in bed calmly awaiting death when unnatural sounds disturbed that Sweet serenity. Skirting the Edge of coma. I had been thinking about the next world s Many benefits car insurance surely would t be necessary nor beautifully preserved record for tax Audi tors and it would be blissfully quiet except for an occasion Al song by Fred a Ita Irr or Eua Fitzgerald and z tue Bro gamer pkwy naturally then these unnatural sounds invading my terminal doze were upsetting because they obviously came from either radio or television. You can always Tell it i sound with a knife Edge. What a Hurt i croaked they have radio and television even Here in the next world talk about despair. If they had radio and television detergent and Beer were me table it did t even do any Good to die any More. But it was not the next work broadcasting. In a nearby room some next it Kro. Apparently More interested in George will s View of tote Unnone than in being present a bedside to catch my last word. Is b Ning to some non sense about president Reagan s budget. Even worse. I a prisoner of revered Bankets and scarcely a be to whisper for mercy seemed doomed id spend my Las moments being lectured on tote president s budget at such moments humanity is granted powerful clarity of Vino. And with Tbs gift i caught gain pc of truth so Sim pfc and so obvious Stltt it Wouch Hoe an but Reagan was t try More Auero cd m has budget than iwas and my interest adj body budget had Shays registered. O a Scafe of i Tot full two pools be car Herat Here strand hat Ute Frontier Between we Rife 1 pct com Ike secret of Appeal to the american. Pasc. The american put Fly part a Laad at the Federal budget Eaher. I Ronald resum they it fat had a presi Dent whose boredom with us rat Nobble Aliyy Baring of their own As i Lay there yearning to Cross Over the broadcasters were pointing with alarm to the deficit so the cat in Tocu and that to the possibly unrealistic Revenue estimates. You be heard it All though maybe you Haven t if unlike me you have simply turned off your machinery every year when budget fever grips our news bearers. Reagan has probably turned his off every year since he got big enough to reach the dial. What he instinctively knows a that people who care about budgets Aren t the same people who get you elected. They fid buy the Campaign. Of course so have to be rewarded with tip service about the importance of balancing the budget and re Gandees that he it torah committed to balanced budget so Long As it does t Cost pain to any of the million who do the acting and could t care Lea about budgets but know that Banc my the ally requires tax Money or. As they say ii account tag tic pcs pain. So Wake the preside is also Hociy deter med to Baj Anee tie budget be is even More aug toftely determined not to of fact the pain that Bahning requires. Winch Means he Dot going to try to balance the budget. Which it by Swift most of us to whom budgets a Baccki or otherwise Are Oca duller than those Penguin stows that have taken Over Public Tek Obion. Actually if you think about it with a fevered brain the president would have to be off hit Rocker la do anything that might abolish. Nil record breakage deficit. Is Portical Golf after and � to Dow Yew Itic Mot of the Federal government except for the notary and to Mokes re the thing does t crop up again. Alter be leans Washington. What better Way to achieve this than by Creata us famously staggering deficit if Washington for Yean to come most Stram to Par Bitts he ran up in the 1980s, Money id Start new Federal activities will be Hart to find. What s More Ike big melt Tail contracts he s let being programmed to grow costlier with the pass ing years i mate it that much harder to find Money for anything the. With Bond clarified by fever and pain m every Jet can see that this president has done what to Doc he has put the Kibosh on Federal govern he did it by product the Tig Gfa budget deficit in orator or. Tar conservatives m the next work wont believe c new York Tymn Blacks break conspiracy of silence by Ellen Goodman the Prates on. The Wall of the Urban league office in Detroit carries a direct menage from one Block generation to another Don t make baby if you can t be a a Black machinist interviewed by a. Washington Post reporter says forthrightly and for publication we re nonliving up oui we Are Blacks. A Black Community worker taks into the television Camee Homes about the breakup of Waco families if the Parent n 17 or 1$ Tina Carn and Unm Oti Valov fooling around. Wandering around what s the child going to Larai see. I m not even talking about Ramn. Maybe later of Well get Back to that. But i theft we the old conspiracy of silence thai kept backs Frodo own in. Public a brakes. At first tentatively and my openly they have begin la Aii their troubles spec my Unity to Colet. Event in Antt of while pc for. A Bony of Lorie update series locus pieces on Black to Visaas the a autio. Luther King or. Birthday Lebi Atiim. 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