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Show Tirn UNIVERSITY J URN AL• SOUTRERN urAH UNIV'81lS~Y •MONDAY, ~MJUIR. 25, 1 ~95 W.. BUCKLEY Education cut 'Ac:, e ' 1 a rccurr •n co lu mn ch rough /11 h m mbers of • b nmn 1..r zty r: y adJr · s topics 1concP , Toduy· column 1 l.,y Pre ident William J. limon. his a bu y time f r you. But hilc you r makin the dec1 ions that will help ou bml a od We, the Congr · sion.al majority is working to mak dra tic ut in educauon. A d t h ut will j pa1dizc the futur you :u1d y ur generation ar working toward. I want you to kno v that I oppose th c ·uts . I wilJ do ever ything in my power to fi ht them and to ·ee r;o it that the dream of h igher ed ucation remains real for all Americans. For the first tim in a long time, lead rs fr m both parties ar re olved that we must balan e th e federal b udget. From th day I ook offic e, I've been committed t hi s goal lr three year , e hav cut the d £icit n ~. 1ly in half, from $290 billion to $160 billion. · w we are ready t ehminate the deficit t1r )y. Bu just how we get rid of the deficit is an o th er mo te r . The majori ty Ln Co1 gress wants to balance the budget in seven years, rsv;a :ind do it while giving an unnecessarily large tax cut. But in order to do th ese things, the Congressional ma jorit y would make enormous cuts in education. My balanced budget plan would take more years than Congress' to eliminate the deficit, but that's a small prjce co pay to keep your scholar hips, your student loan , and national service sa.fe. Balancing the budget is about more than numbers. It's abou t our values and our future . Education has always been the currency of the American Dream. When I wa your age, it was assumed- based on our long history-that each generation would have a better life than the preceding one. More than anything else, a good education is the way we pass this vision on to those who come after us. The facts speak for themselves. Earnings f r tho e with no post-secondary education ha e fallen substantially in the last 15 yea.rs. The only people for whom earnings have increased steadily are people exactly like you-those Americans with more education. Every year of higher education increases your earnings by six to 12 percent. Those years also mean a stronger overall economy. Balancing the budget wiU be good for our economy and your future if it's done right. But simp~y balancing the budget won't do us much good in the long term if your generation does not have the education it needs to meet the challenges of the next century. Just think over what the Congressional majority's plan, if it went through, would do to you and any of the one out of two college students who receives federal aid. It would: Raise the cost of student loans by $10 billion over seven years by charging you 1 all h1l vou ar in sch ol. :iu ld m cn.:as d · co. t o a coll ge edu a ! n b a · mu h a: $ , l 00 f r und c rgrndu.atcs an d $9,400 or grad ua te tudt.'nl ·. Deny up to 360,000 low-income.: tudents desperately needed Pell ,rant in 1996 Shu t down Americo1p , ou r national s rvice in itiative, which ives thousand · ( young people the chance to earn and ave money for coll ge. By contrast, my balanced budget plan builds on the national con en u · that we must help people help th mselv s, through the power of education . lt eliminate both of our defic its: ou r budget deficit and our education deficit. My plan cut wasteful pending by more than $1 trillion, but it also increases investme nts in education by $40 billion over the next seven years. Think over how my balanced budge p.lan would help guarantee your fu ture and all the hard work you:re about to put into it. It will: Increase fundi ng for Pell Grants by $ .4 billion. And we would raise the top award to $3,128 by the year 2002. Expand Americorps to let even more young· Americans serve their communities and go to college. Protect our direct-lending program, which makes student loans more affordable, with more repayment options, and saves taxpayers, parents, and students billions of dollars. I just returned from Pearl Harbor, where I took part in ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the end idliiliiil~ll of the Second World War. In the late 1940s, wh en the veterans we honored left their loved ones to go off and serve their country, they were the age most of you are now. When they came home, the country recognized their service and thciI potential, and it responded with the G.I. Bill, which guaranteed a college education to every returning veteran.They were given the opportunity they needed to take responsibility for theiI lives. In taking on the responsibility of educating yourselves, you have chosen the right and difficult path. You did the work you had to do to get into college. You may be working now to pay your way. And your family may have worked long hours and made great sacrifices to help you get where you are today. You deserve the nation's support. And your future success will likely repay our common investment. I do not accept the arguments of those who condemn inesponsibility in young Americans and then seek to de ny th e nation's helping hand to the millions of you who are doing the right things. I hope you'll support my efforts to protect education and balance the budget. The fight for education is the fight for your future. In my life-and in the lives of countless Americans-education has meant the difference between the impossible and the possible. It should be true in your lives, too. With your help, we'll keep it that way. N E TA Y Defend Amer·cal Mr. Hyde's propo al Rep. H nry Hyde o !Uinui ha No w tht can hardl y be in Lr due ·d a mca ur under the 11ncr r~t d a A provocati , act title D fend Amcdca Act o J99 . given tha the o tnne of mutual He is joined by Rep . Maitin H k a . ured estrucd n is no longer o Ohio in coming up w1t1 an idea pccau c. But th e 5enate u the strange to the ima inati o n : Uni ed States, on S pt. 6, reached a narncly, that the defen e of 'hip rti ·an compromise" on the America depends to ome extent matter 0f missil d ·f ·use. The cnators " 'h'l p uced that on the freedom to act, and thJt the fr edom to act wa ub tant1v l · ·ompromi c claimed to have been forf ited in 1912 in the ABM gu ide I by their concern for mi si.le Treaty. d f n c . Bu t .., h, t they pro rded We are talk in g ab ut tha t o do v,1 to · uthr,rtzc fu ure cploy men t nJy un behalf of legendary bone of contention, an outgrowth of th 1972 treaty, that Am rica ' alJi abroad and allegedly forl ids certain ktnds of American re h ad. cxpdiment in anti-mi ilc h , im Jtant uc tion, which t hn ol gy, and !Jtlv forbid h a t d with re earch and deployment in more than one ite. deployment r contin cD tal For a long time, a r---..,.....-...,._..---.--- dd n e, is technical argument therefore skircedengagcd legislatures I aving us, 111 the a.nd diplomat on phrase of d f ·n se whether cxperitrategi t Fra nk ments focused on affney, in a tate the "brilliant pebble" of "abject vu lnerwere precluded ability" to nu !car under the terms of attack by m i siJes the 1972 agreement. of a rogue state. The idea has been There i a danger to arm satellites that determined with slingshots that eountrie will would destroy acquire intercont atmo pherc-bound inental ba lli stic missile . But the mi iles in the interesting question near future a nd became, in the first with littl warning phase: Why don ' t by mean other we pull away from than inJigc n u the 1972 treaty~ development." When Caspar Weinberger was The enator ' research e ven defense secretary under Ronald a know led •e that " the concept of Reaga n , he first argued the mutual as u:red de truction, which legitimacy of experimentation, but was one of the major philo ophical Congre s wa not convinced, and rationales for the ABM Treaty, is all the enem.ies f appeasement all now qucst"onablc as the basis for over the world argu ed again t stability in a multipolar world." rescinding-in effect...:_any treaty So? So- d nothing. That is, that Soviet Union had agreed to. n othi ng that contributes to Reagan , though the proud author continental defense. of the original insight into anti· The Hyde-Hoke m easure would missile miss iles !the Strategic direct the president to notify the Defense In i tiativ e!, nev e r got Russia n federation that t he around to serving th e ix-m onth United States inlends to exerci e notice required by th e treaty to its right under the treaty's Article announce its rescission. XV to withdraw fr JOl the accord. Out of office, Weinberger On e has to h ope that an puhlicly argued in favor of enlightened, debate will en ue . rescission, but his voice and other T here aren' t really m:iny voices were drowned out by que tions that need answering. appeasers and others afraid of any I ) Docs re cission of the treaty initiative the Soviet Union would in any conceivable way endanger frown on. Russia? N . 2) Can research and But of course now there is no deployment help u to shore up Soviet Union, and although we our def en s ? Y e . 31Are there have a treaty, there is a question other nation that might benefit whether the entity with which we from a vigorou s anti-missile entered into that arrangement still program? Yes. All nations that exists. wish protec ion from missiles. Still, it is argued, it does no particular harm to proceed as On the Right by William P. though the treaty were alive. The Buckley fr. is o nationally thing to do is to rescind it. syndicated column. |