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Wednesday, January 23, 1025 Daily Nebrcskan o T ;: " r.ri w V ' ' . ..T" V' no o fi , "v "-v n liiip r . i i i X f "J' r A m i uur yeara &gu una wet a, i i.e-u I 1 LI. ! A. i til.. grf was sworn in iur ms ursi icnn. mwa . Reagan called an "era of national renewal" in his inaugural speech in 1931 promised a KaHa ennnnmv irViK waiiIH sero fnr tVtO VftlidO and disadvantaged and a stronger defense to t V oj protect lias cuuaiiy s imurc. President Reagan Monday once again tock the oath of office. In the inaugural address he claimed thi3 country is on the right path to economic recovery to relive the dreams of freedom our forefathers had when they fought for this country'3 independence. Are we ready for another four years? A look back at the past four shows that the nation feels good about itself and the economy is stronger, but also that the deficit threatens recovery. A lack of cprapassion for the lower classes leaves a feeling that we have a long way to go. In 1931 Reagan promised he would balance the budget. In the next four years exorbitant government spending in particular defense spending ballooned, tripling the federal deficit. i In II. vWU 1 Vv-X 3,? In 1981 Reagan said it was time to "check and reverse" government spending. But by the end of the last fiscal year ending Sept. 30, government spending had increased from 22.8 percent cf the Gross National Product, when Beaton started his first term, to 23.8 percent in 1084 With the deficit growing to $175.3 billion in 1084 and the budge Sice projecting a $200 billion-plus deficit in '85, it is hard to believe premises of economic stability when the bills of the recovery will inevitably be handed to future generations. This will be just about the time today's students have to start paying their student loans. . At the same time the deficit is out of control, Reagan is claiming that there will be no tax increases. "We must simplify our tax system, make it more fair and bring tax rates down for all who work hard and earn," Reagan said Monday. Like a rich man's Robin Hood, Reagan's tax cuts in-his first term only benefited those in the higher tax brackets. A study done by a non partisan Urban Institute reported Reagan's tax cuts were more beneficial to the rich. The poor benefited the least. A study by the Census Bureau reported that the percentage of those below th poverty level had increased from 13 percent at the beginning of Reagan's first term to 15.2 percent in 1983. Another group at the top of the Reagan hit list is the nation's youth. The General Accounting Office said 500,000 faisiHies were dropped from the Aid to Dependent Children program during Reagan's last term. With proposed cuts in student financial assis tance and high youth unemployment, Reagan's ; promises of a better future seem unrealistic. Resgm's four years have had a lot of style, but little substance. The poor, the old, the disadvantaged, the fanners, the young, minorities and students will all lose in the next four years. And all cf U3 will lose if the deficit is not trimmed with defense cuts and tax increases. 0 4 1 Kfi V.. t - 1 pa. -rrr v x crM 'm confused by the recent actions of the State Liquor Control Board which banned the multiple sale of drinks. ) Dill v Allen The establishment mentioned most often on this issue is the former Stooges, 828 P Street, which offered four drinks for the price of one. They would make the drinks as two doubles if you asked. A friend and I could go to Stooges and each have a double for about 60 cents each. That was a bargain. That was good business. Thus my confusion. You see, I've always assumed I was living in America, land that I love. To the rest of the world and me, America means free enterprise and competition. It's a land where you can get a decent dsy's pay for a day's work ... unless you're a farmer. It's a land where businesses with the most appeal triumph, be that appeal quality, bargains, or ideally both. If IGA or Save-Mart sells bread four loaves for a dollar, people say that's good business. A bar doesn't ha?e that freedom now. Unlike the members of the liquor board, college students can't aDford to pay outrageous prices for drinks, especially with the always rising cost of tuition and the frustrating prices in the bookselling racket. The only available jobs for full-time students are with the rugr&ts at Barger King or Wendy's. The board's reasoning for tha change is unfounded and designed to punish innocent people. It will cut down cn the number of drunken drivers, they say, and also will give a person the , chtr.ee to say, "No, I only want one drink at a time." Here, I am confused again. You see, I already thought we had new, tougncr laws to punish the drunken driver. As a matter of fact, I wholeheartedly endorse those laws, and so do many of us who believe in the safety of innocent people. But what doe3 this have to do with the price of drinks in a bar? I don't know anyone who drives in a bar. We.&lready have law3 that punish people who, outside of bars, drive while intoxicated. Why should people relaxing in a bar be punished beforehand for' a crime they haven't committed? It's a pure and simple case of government intervention into people's freedom of choice. The government is blamisig and punishing in nocent people who choose to drink for its own inability to punish wrongdoers in this case, drunken drivers. For these people that don't want two or more drinks for the price of one, simply ask the bartender for only one drink, give it away, leave it on the table, or go to a bar that doesn't offer drink specials. The solution for bars now, cf course, is to offer drinks at much reduced prices, say one drink for a quarter. Howev er, rumors project that the liquor control board is going to ban th sale cf drinks at reduced prices next ' Can you imagine that? If Valentino's offered pizza at a reduced price no one would object. They would be too busy eating. Yet the liquor board has this authoritative power to make choices for bars in a supposed free society. Let's put this issue to a state-wide vote. It could very well lose, but at least then we could say that we, the people, decided. At this rate every bar in town will end up like that plastic, yuppy-infasied establishment, The Lucky Lady. I tried the place once. I paid a two dollei cover at the dm (for wb&t?), and wa3 then charged two dollars for a bottle of Moosehead premium beer. That worked out to four dollars for a single bottle of beer. Like the saying goes, if it weren't for suckers ... I would urge local drinkisig establishments to offer reduced prices for drinks and I would urge students who choose to drink to support those establishments. I would also urga you to (MrJc in moderation and exercise your freedom of choke wisely. Columnist scoffs reader poll X f 11 Daily tt CSw.8 Wrieefc, 473-1723 Dantei Shtll Tfa if nit Sim Kwr l!citte!a fhumn . Lmsri Hoppt Yitl W. Tripleil III Jel i - tuft Umk Omit Chm ChotH, 4T3-S7SI Con Wstion. 47J-73C1 The Daily Nabroskan (USPS 144-C30) is published by the UNL PubiicatiOfi Board Monday through Friday in the fail in! spring Mmetiert and Tuesday and Fridays in the summer eewiions, except during vacations. hctim era encouragsd to submit story 'dsns snd com ments to the Daisy Nebrosken by phoning 472-1 783 btwen 9 e.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, i he public )so hss tccssa to the Publications Board. For informBtion, call Chris Chofeta, 472-8783. Postmaster Send address chengos to tfie Daily Nebraslcart. 34 Nebraska Union, 1409 R St., Lincoln, Neb. Second ctew P09ts paid at Lincoln, Hi 8?S10.- EDITOa GENERAL MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER ASSISTANT ADVERTISING MANAGER CIRCULATION MANAGER NEWS EDITOR CAMPUS EDITOR WIRE EDITOR COPY DESK CHiEF EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR PHOTO CHIEF ASSISTANT PHOTO CHIEF PUBLICATIONS BOARO CHAIRPERSON PROFESSIONAL ADVISER . - Landers OTongfu'Dy denounces men rom egrlv in the momiM to late at ninht. 'I people, asked me if I had anything to say about Ann Landers and her readers response to her question about sex. The fact of the matter is that I do: Shut up, ladies. iticiiard cbi Gohea The hdies at iss'js ars the ones viio rsspondsd to the qussticn, "Would you be content to be held closely and treated tenderly and forget 'the act'?" All things considered, thsy said they could do without the kttcr ji!st m long as they got the former. According to Lsad-srs, 72 pfrcent cf an Ktcu?.dir.g 8O,CC0 women sad "the act" was. at beat, an act. The shew, they ssid, need not go en. Eat neither, for that matter, does the incessant men-bashing that has for so long bzm in fashion. Not only do these women kvetch to Landers about their husbands, but the columnist sums it up by denouncing all men. The conclusion is clear: "Iter3 something very unflattering about the men in this country. It says men are selfish. They want theirs. They're takers, not particularly interested in being givers. They're getting their satisfaction and they don't particularly care whether or not their lover or wife is getting anything out of it." Now hold on a minute there, Ann. In the first place, Landers can not be talking about all men certainly not the penitents who write the men's columns in magazines and certainly not some other men as wall. And shs cannot have Landers is right, thosigh, if she feels that she can lambsst an entire sex and get sway with it. It goes without, saying that no man could write what she hss about women and even make it to the door. He would be vilified, chastised, criti cized and. possibly, sued and for pod reason. It is no longer possible to talk in these terms about women to say. for instance, that they're emotional and like to shop, and have a genetic compulsion to redecorate. Only men and com munists can bs castigated as a erouu but only er- the former fa? what they are &t birth. m xmna those men who are -takers" if; becauss their wives have been frank only in ktters'to columnists, they don't even know they're takip rhh gotU swim and birds gotta fly, but no man gotta bs a lover. It takes some communication. Tha went psrt cf it is thst fer too long men: have been accomplices in thslrcwn persecution, j Eecogaizks that, historically, they did dis-j criminate tcsinst and persecute women, ac- knowkd2inftht ever the ccnturias they did get the better cf the dss!, they are nsw the gad ridden liberals cf the bsdrocm: Any women cant Maa-Mau them. J f 1 t 1
