Clearing Away the Budgetary Smoke and Mirrors
By Donella Meadows
–February 9, 1995–
Every day the U.S. government borrows over $700 million, obligating every man, woman, and child of us to add another $3 to our individual share of the national debt. Every day. The interest we pay on that debt amounts this year to an average of $848 apiece. Americans of every political persuasion are upset by this [...]
The Government Budget–So How Would You Balance It?
By Donella Meadows
–February 2, 1995–
OK, wise guys.
You want lower taxes. You want the government budget to balance. You think Congress or the White House or both are made up of a bunch of dingalings.
Here’s your chance to straighten them out. Let’s not be like those craven folks in Washington who are putting off budget balancing by going for a Constitutional [...]
Immigration Policy That’s Practical As Well As Noble
By Donella Meadows
–January 19, 1995–
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Emma Lazarus wrote those inspiring words on the occasion of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in 1886. They sank deep [...]
The Most Expensive Health Care System in the World
By Donella Meadows
–January 5, 1995–
America has the best health care system in the world, said Bob Dole and the other executioners of health care reform. Once upon a time that claim was true. Now what America has is the most expensive health care system in the world, in spite of the fact that it leaves one-third of its citizens un- [...]
Newt Has Some Right Ideas for the Wrong Reasons
By Donella Meadows
–December 15, 1994–
I hate to admit that Newt Gingrich is right about anything, but I think it’s a great idea to have moments of silence in school.
There should be moments of silence at work too, and before meals and in shopping malls and at baseball games. I’m especially in favor of moments or even hours of silence on [...]
