The Reagan Revolution Isn’t Over Yet
By Donella Meadows
–August 12, 1993–
Well, yes, I guess it’s true what they’re saying, that the just-completed budget battle does reverse, partially, by a hair, the momentum of Reaganomics. Government spending, especially military spending, will go down some. Taxes on the richest one percent of us will rise to about half of what they were in 1980. The gas tax will [...]
Who Will Tell the People
By Donella Meadows
–June 3, 1993–
Whatever you do, don’t read the book Who Will Tell the People by William Greider. Especially not now, while the powers-that-be are putting up such spectacular resistance to balancing the budget, helping the economy, or reducing their own privileges. You’ll get too mad.
Innocent citizens like me can watch the short-sightedness and greed of our leaders year [...]
We Need Change, In Spite of the Upset
By Donella Meadows
–May 13, 1993–
A friend of mine has a favorite saying: “Change is upset.” You can see what she means by watching Washington these days. The people voted for change. Bill Clinton is trying to produce it. He’s going in the directions favored by popular fussbudget Ross Perot — cut the deficit, create jobs, reduce the power of special [...]
Health Care – Why Not the Best?
By Donella Meadows
–May 6, 1993–
In an average year one dollar out of every ten I bring home goes for health insurance. My premium went up 10 percent in January and another 19 percent this week. On top of that I pay the first $1000 plus half of the next $4000 for any actual health care. In spite of its enormous [...]
Rules for the New World Order: A Citizen’s Proposal
By Donella Meadows
–April 1, 1993–
We who were born to democracy value it, but human beings are not all alike. Some may prefer to live under dictatorship. Anyway, whether other people like their leaders is no business of ours. As long as other governments stay within their own borders, they are not our problem.
Those were the dominant ideas of the old [...]
