European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                K stateside views lip Reading gets harder and harder Charles Osgood Tribune Media service a word can be used like a Christmas tree or a congressional spending Bill a vehicle for hanging things on. On a Christmas tree people hang lights balls Bells and tinsel. On a spending Bill legislators hang their own Little pet government projects. In the Case of a word what you append Are prefixes to one end and suffixes to the other until the meaning becomes totally obscured. One reason the governments budget deficit is the Way it is is that every time a congressman hangs another pet project on a spending Bill it costs the taxpayers More Money. But instead of collecting the Money by hiking taxes what they do is borrow the Money adding to the deficit and increasing the National debt. Until now anyone who wanted to talk with the president about cutting Down the deficit had to Promise in Advance that he  mention the t word. This was because presidential candidate George Bush had made a pledge a no new  it was simple straightforward and without condition. A a conditions is the word we re going to decorate with prefixes and suffixes. Nothing in life it seems is unconditional anymore. We done to talk about conditional or unconditional anymore. We talk about precondition Al and Unur conditional. Recently congressional democrats and republicans and the Bush administration met to talk about deficit reduction. The White House a said there were no  a precondition is to a condition what a rerecording is to a recording i guess. This does not help me however since i can to figure out the difference Between a recording and a rerecording. A precondition lived meeting on this subject  get very far. Hence the official untre conditions ligation of it. A lot of people were upset by the idea of  talks because it sounded As if Bush were changing his tune about a no new  however once it was explained that Bush was simply saying that if anybody used the t word he  bite their Heads off certain people in Washington joined with the . They were the new or Neo . Experience teaches that when politicians level with the voters by letting them know they just might increase the taxpayers taxes the taxpayers tend to level with the politicians by bouncing them out of office. So its understandable if democrats feel disinclined to stick their necks out by calling for new or higher taxes. They would rather Point to Bush and say. Its his fault. With so much unreconstructed Antine Oun  in Washington is it any wonder that its so difficult to read anybody slips no kidding americans most common Street names second Park third fourth fifth first sixth seventh Washington Maple source it Polk co. Ages of seven soft drinks in 1990 coca cola �?104 years old or Pepper �?104 hires Hoot Beer �?104 Pepsi cola a 92 Canada dry Ginger ale a 92 Orange crush 74 7-up�?07 source world features Syndicate what initials stand for . Goodrich a Benjamin Franklin sep a scientifically treated Petroleum . Bean a Leon Leonwood a amp is a Mars and Mare families bids a Bradley Vorhees and Day Pontiac to a Gran tourism Omolo Gato grand touring car in production source world features Syndicate hour poor ,.remember there Are  who Are 60ing to sep tonight with Cash Bow  24, 1990 sunday c Page 3