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Show ( s CAPITOL i fflWE " wSstm WATCHDOG';! J Hv Rill ll nlri d p c 1 One more chance to turn things around I After several years working in Washington, D.C., the thought crossed my mind one day, "Maybe this form of government won't work for 220 million people." Though somewhat unpatriotic, un-patriotic, this idea was not an original thought. Marvin Stone, Editor of U.S. News & World Report recently wrote of similar concerns. Hesaid, "...blame does not belong all in one place, but during the last decade, Congress has failed to take effective action on issues control to U.S. survival: sur-vival: A withering of defense capability; a foreign-policy abyss; runaway inflation; decline of the dollar in world markets; plummeting foreign trade; uncontrollable relief cost; epidemic waste and fraud. The big accomplishment of 1980, and a vital one, has been a program aimed at eventual independence in energy but enactment took six irreplacable years." Stone is right, until now, this has been government's answer to all of the important questions of the day, years and years of debate before a resolution. There does, however, appear to be a L silver lining in this depressing sea as a result of the November 4 eh One party control of Congress hat, to an end and if there is a cha;t make the system work, now's thf The national election cou':: equated with a South American d'etat." The guys who have'-complaining have'-complaining for the past 40 yeaj now in control of the White Hoi' Senate, and have a better balance 5 House. It's now time (oj: Republicans to put action where rhetoric has been. They haveabt; davs after the inaueuration to ge . act together. If they don't wet: have more of the same. It may be possible. We migfi make it. But time is quickly out. The simple ability of goveri-to goveri-to respond to day to day pnf consuming the working mart businessman, the housewife if grocery store and the farmer 1 - field must be acted on with j There's no more time for excuse time to turn things around. C Washington, give us a reason too again! i" |