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Amendments to a routine debt Unit bill intro
duced Saturday in the U.S. Senate proved once
again that changes need to be made in House and
Senate rules.
The bill, which would raise the treasury's borrow
ing authority from S1.3C3 trCicn to $1.45 trillion,
would be enough to carry the government until
January,
Although the Daily Ncbrcsksn already has express
ed concern about our growing national deficit, we
realize that, in the short run, the government has no
alternative but to raise the limit
If the bill is not passed by midnight today, the
federal government cannot sell the bonds and notes
needed to pay its debts. Treasury Secretary Donald
Regan told United Press International that such a
delay could cost the United States $250 million in
higher interest costs.
Still, some senators apparently do not consider
the bill so urgent that it cant be weighed down with
unnecessary additions.
Sen. Daniel Moynihan, D-N.Y., was successful in
attaching an amendment that would require a spe
cific appropriation by Congress for the United
States to provide arms for a Jordanian military
force being trained to respond to crises in the Per
sian Gulf.
Sen. Alan Dixon, D-I1L, tried to add an amend
ment that would have had no legal force but that
would have put the Senate on record in favor of
giving the president line-item veto power on large
appropriations bills. His amendment was defeated
Whether or not these issues deserve to be put on
the record books is not the issue here. Both may
deserve to be discussed and voted on by the Senate.
But the place for them is not attached to a totally
unrelated bill
' In the end, some senators may end up switching
their votes on the bill because of the amendments
and some who might normally vote against the
amendments may end up voting for them because of
the urgency of raising the debt ceiling.
The rules need to be changed to prevent senators
and congressmen from being put in such a position.
They should not have to consider unrelated topics
when deciding how to vote on a particular issue.
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Halloween BaFilous holidavfarce
-. Today is Halloween, the most useless holiday one
can imagine.
At least, though, it has managed to live up to the
standards of most holidays in that, anymore, it b
little more than a commercial venture.
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a little party at home, inviting other children (and
their parents). This v:cy, parents still could provide
their children with fun and those caviar-producing
rreets, while avciii::' tha dangers.
Then yen could fzzl t etter the next day. But while
you're sitting hems with Little Dick, cr Jane, or Fido,
come ether parent will sitting in an emergency .
room, crLr.g, bbmir.g ecne -"crarics when, in fact,
the ll'rr.2 ctarU v;tth them.
Per hsps you have to be a child to rea!!y appreciate
its true impact the after-dark adventure, the
apprehension of approaching an unknerva neigh
bor and the glee of beir.g rewajded for simply yelling
trick or treat" ::".V:v
. , And I suppose, from an adult perspectivs, seeing '
your children dreseed in those cute little rpocLy
costumes gives you that warm, mushy feeling that
makes being a parent so great.
. But that warm, mushy feeiir.g wont last for many
parents, becauss, without fail, starting in Tuesday's
newspapers and on television and radio broadcasts,
the reports will appear of injuries and deaths result
ing from poisoned candy or the ever-popular razor
, blade in the apple.
: These deaths and injuries can be avoided with a
little common sense. . "
A couple of examples: " '
First, responsible parents should go trick or treat-'
ing with their chid(ren). And they would know in
advance whose houses they would vieit
, Cecond, a parent who rc"y cared vould Jurt have
Halloween ho tr.;en on a ne.v meaning for me
thh year. I used to think of it as simply that time of
year when weirdes hurt kids and parents prove
beyond a doubt that they ars IrrcepcnsHals.
Paier.ts .shcv the same kind cf irresponsibility
vhen they let 7-year-cld3 play vdtl? firecrackers on
the Fourth cf Ju!y. . :
. " ; But already this year, just dap before Halloween,
you were able to see Christmas commercials on tele
' vision. Oh, they were subtle. Hone of the blatant kind
where Santa Cbus and Rudolph try to sell you dolls
cr bicycles. No, they were more ca the order of a.
f:.7.v...j v;zT,ti?, no, needing a hcr.e computer and
then s
to a shot under the tree where little
Tommy (or whoever) opens up a new mird-com-
puter system to help him learn math.
That means Halloween slowly is being incorpo
rated into the "Christmas ceaeen," which used to
wait until Thanksgiving. . ' . .. . 'v..-... . .
All cf thi3 underscores the fact that most of our
religious and national holidays have become
nothing more than commercialized, money-making
ventures, totally devoid, for meet people, cf any
If any doubts linger about the cal
lousness cf some people cn ths ex
treme political right, at ler.:t some cf
those doubts may be dispelled by an
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rr.ilnutrlen in thb ceuntry b the
Then individual irrcereneibilitv or
imprudence is the cauea cf hunger, it .
raacs more ce to pro
cher.3 rather than a month's worth cf
feed stamps," Covard writes in "Feed
- b,g Everite-: IIe'7 Federal Food Pro-
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: Cevard writes that current federal "
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el ythan current prcgrams and would
r.et c!:trcy anyone's incentive to pro-
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In the sort cf maneuver that in the
theater cr.ee was called "plryir.g to the
pit," Covard cells up wtiTare abuae ste-
ever food etep reeipi:r.t3 who drove
rea!:e3 the rather strare cliim that
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hurrer -and r.irtritler u;e evidence
nonei;en
wiie survey to baek up cljrr.e."
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In what would be more appropriate
as mock epie ctj-i-3 at the start cf his
article, Bovard says, This b the story,
cf ho7 a handful cf isolated incidents
became juetieatien for vastly increas
ing dependency in America . . . how
ccr7teemen repeatedly exaggerated
the extent cf hunger in order to JustiTy
trying to feed everybody."
At the end cf hb article, Eevard
again reaches fer elevated langue-e
and tries to attribute motives: 'Hunger
has become an fceus to conjure with
a political magic wand to mesmerize
the pubis's critical faculties." '
Even Dovard cannot diepate the
findings of a committee that F.ebert
Kennedy headed b 1C37; the cemmit-
tee's hearings on hunger b the I2eeb-
sippi delta were influential b expand
ing food stamp and ether feed as
sistance prcrjrams. Ncr can i r" -
that fcfant mortality rates b the Uni
ted States are relatively high.
Cut b Lb artiele, Dovard rcfjres to ,
ma.:e the xry r,eee--rv rr ..t,-:
etween xnabutntica and th r- -
ling deaths cf infants and unborn
children b ir.povcri:hed creas, both
urban and rural As perheps hb most
cogent evident that hunger b Amer
ica b jict a prctlem, Fsvrrd 7rites:
"From 1C33 to ICC 3 the 117 York
Times did not run. a tire"- crtiale on
hunger b Ameriea." .
The unfortunate thing about Folicy
nevier's cclf-cenlng -petition, its
dwrrTuncd cvn.m cf crieal facts
and its hypocritical features cf sym
pathy to the poor (tfen't fcrget the
soup kitchens and d:t pi!b) b that
thb attitude cee-3 to have become
prevalent b an clv.ir.l tiitien that
will net even empty its wrrcheures of.
surphs feci fer to cf leering the
Althe-j gh th 3 1: T.ir;:-.-iprc -ram b
Coverts mr-'n t-?:i, rfcer,:mna
tien cf federal fee J pre : b e.eep
irg. And to hzri I . . .1 t:.e L-.::':t cuts :
thet the F:r n z :r:!:;n has
te'-ah feed prerr:-1 11 zt'.tj criti
ce.J Lt.'i w i-'.t r.e . . ... 3 v 1 the.
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