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Article: Mad dogs and congressmen. (balanced-budget amendment) (Editorial)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- February 28, 1994
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Maybe it's the air. Or the water. Or the ink in their copying machines. Or maybe they become pod people for a season. Whatever the reason, every once in a while (although perhaps less frequently than most Americans think), a truly weird giddiness seizes the minds of otherwise sober men and women in Washington, who then do-- or try to do--something really harebrained. These are our elected representatives in the Congress, and the duncery du jour is a balanced-budget amendment.
Here is mom-and-apple-pie government at its best. It is now widely held in the land that 15 years of deficit spending, during which time the national debt has increased from $700 billion or so ...