European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 12, 1992 commentary the stars and stripes Page 15does new beginning apply to Madonna too not even de Tocqueville would understand it. Americans Are a people who at the same time they arc demanding that their political candidates refrain from getting into the Gutter break Down the doors of bookstores to grab up copies of Madonna s Kinky picture Book. K Here a Ross Perot telling everyone we ought to look under the Hood but the truth of the matter is that we re More interested in looking under a skirt. The celebrated television Cameo psychologist or. Joyce Brothers a or. Ruth with her panties on was quoted in entertainment weekly Magazine As calling Madonna a Rich slut. There was a Day not Long ago when you could not get away with calling someone a slut even if that person was a slut. But its of today anybody can be a slut a especially Madon a a. These Days it really does not pay to sue someone who Calls you a slut. Being a Madonna Type slut is Worth More Money through video movies and now books than you can collect in any courtroom. Its also of for radio talk show hosts to use demeaning expressions about other people. The ratings soar. A new York talk Host named Howard Stern became a celebrity solely because of his inability to speak words with More than four letters. Now he a making a movie about flatulence posing Bent Over in a pair of bottomless pants to pitch Nis product. Then there a Calvin Klein the people who write their name All Over the clothes we buy. In some really Howard Klenberg gripping advertising Calvin Klein is Selling menus jockey shorts in the november vanity fair Magazine with a full Page photo of a male a a a such 7 _. A. A male clutching his genitalia through his briefs. Really grabs you. The same Issue also carries photos of a father running his hand up his sensuous daughters thigh a and other such Normal happenstance of the household. You May Tell me that s life today and i ought to get with the program. But in a too Busy trying to equate that with what happened on the election stump these past few months and in the polling Booths last week. I thought what we were about was family either Republican perceived or constitutionally understood a and a change of direction. I thought that the american Public had tired of what life had become and was hoping to Cut a new deck. But Perot spent millions of his own dollars trying to Tell America his Story on to while Madonna dropped her drawers told her Story a whatever it was a charged everyone $50 a pop and is cleaning up. Life has become one big Oprah Winfrey show the estranged and deranged acting like carnival geeks for cameras and dollars. I could More understand us americans if someone would explain to me just Why Madonna sex driven advertisements sensuous movies and the like seem to have replaced Apple pie baseball and Chevrolet As americans recreation. I always thought americans could sort out the truly tasteless without the need to be encumbered with the debilitating Laws the religious right would impose upon the rest of us. Bill Clinton told a Victory Celebration on election Day night that America had voted for a new beginning. Does that mean i Hope that Madonna will put her clothes on or at least carry herself like a respectable slut c Cox nows Sori Creager Clinton might get presidential Shock Robert Reich a Clinton adviser from Harvard and a prototypical Reed up professor determined to make reality rational says a there is so much to do that has been left undone. The task ahead is  please professor do us All a favor. Feel free to be daunted synonym intimidated. Here they come High stepping High spirited democrats who think the Federal government a the government that permeates american life that subsidizes or otherwise regulates almost everything from beekeeping to the importation of mexican bras Only 36,292 allowed in a year with sub quotas for different cup sizes a is guilty of sloth of leaving things  Bruce Reed a Clinton issues Man says the president elect a looks Forward to the most ambitious 100 Days of a president since Franklin Delano  look out this is going to be a learning experience not least for Clinton a legions who will learn How different government a and problems a Are in 1993 than in 1933. On Day two of of dry a famous first 100 Days he ordered a National Bank Holiday. On Day five Congress passed his banking Bill almost unanimously. On Day seven in spite of a revolt by 90 democrats the House passed his Bill to Cut veterans benefits and Federal employees pay. On Day 12, he submitted a farm Bill that presaged Many of the subsequent follies of Federal agriculture programs. The House passed it on Day 18. On Day 17, he proposed the civilian conservation corps. It became Law three weeks later. On Day 36, he proposed the Tennessee Valley authority. He signed it into Law on Day 76. Michael Barone in our country the shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan notes that on nov. 2, 1933, for was Given the proposal for a civil works administration to employ people on such Public works As repairing streets Ana digging sewers. By nov. 23, 800,000 percent five weeks later 4.25 million a 8 percent of the nations labor Force. Today it might take months just to negotiate the racial set asides in his january 1935 state of the Union address for proposed a work Relief program costing $4.8 billion a a More than All the governments revenues the year before All but $800 million to be borrowed. In april Congress passed it putting almost no restraints on the executive branches discretion in spending it. Today Congress micromanage. Today government is not so nimble which probably is Good. Today a George f. G problems Are not comparable to those of the depression. Today government can be quickly brought to Heel by autonomous economic forces. And government cannot get a Purchase on Many problems. A Roos Veltian burst of activism beginning Jan. 20 might produce by april 20, a Mitterrand experience. When in 1981 Francois Mitterrand began his presidency of France with a burst of socialism world economic forces recoiled and Mitterrand retreated. This year in mid october there were reports that Clinton Conte lated a Quick stimulus package. Instantly fears of inflation caused Long term interest rates to surge. Clinton had to Send out soothers. Bond traders cannot be ignored particularly by a government that borrows a billion dollars a Day. Furthermore Many of the conditions democrats complain about cannot be dented by democrats approaches. For example democrats have done Well if not Good by dwelling often tendentious by on statistics about income disparities and promising to improve them by Means of redistribution St policies. But income statistics reflect statistics like these 16 percent of White children Are born out of Wedlock 66 percent of Black children Are. Government docs not know How to change those numbers. It was serendipitous that election Day newspapers reported that the Day before the worlds largest corporation general motors had undergone a far reaching change of regimes. This under scored How much of americans vitality depends on private sector decisions. A a Large proportion of our positive actions a wrote economist John Maynard Keynes a depend on spontaneous optimism rather than mathematical  such actions Are a a result of animal spirits a of a spontaneous urge to  Good things happen when people feel Good. They stay in school have children buy Homes invest. This is what one scholar Calls a a psychological  Reagan understood this having studied his hero for. Clinton could unleash animal spirits immediately with an act much More potent than his banal proposal to stimulate our $6 trillion Economy with an extra $20 billion of infrastructure spending. He could Index capital gains retroactively exempting from taxation the component of capital gains caused by inflation that government causes. This would be a powerful incentive for people to put into economic play a significant portion of the $7 trillion of unrealized capital gains thereby easing the credit shortage increasing the value of capital assets and triggering a Gusher of economic activity. If Clinton does Index capital gains republicans will know he is serious about keeping Power by using it. If he lets the ideology of a a fairness deter him republicans can take heart. C the Washington Post