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Reagan's action 'nonsense' economics professor says
ANDREW de VALPINE Staff Reporter
President Reagan's call for a constitutional amendment to balance the budget is an act of nonsense, Harry Wagner, professor of economics, said last night.
Because, Shaffer said, it is impossible to balance the budget.
"If he could balance the budget, why doesn't he do it anyhow?" Shafer said.
If the United States had a constitutional amendment to balance the budget today, Reagan would be in position to make it. The Shaffer said.
"IN ORDER TO balance the budget, we would have to decrease expenditures or increase taxes, or both, and in extraordinary amounts,"
The problem is that expenditures and income are two sides of the same coin. Shaffer said.
"Nobody can spend money without someone getting some, and nobody can receive money without someone spending some." be said.
The result would be that goods would not be produced and unemployment would rise as a consequence, Shaffer said.
If that were to happen, he said, the United States would then experience what economists call the multiplier effect.
The multiplier effect is the effect one group of employees that is laid off has on another group of employees that is dependent on the first group. In turn, some occupations are dependent on the second group, and so on.
"SO IF EXPENDITURES are decreased, income is also decreased," Shaffer said.
The danger of the national debt has been greatly exaggerated, Shaffer said.
The percentage of the national debt compared with the total goods and services produced, or gross national income, during World War II than it is today, he said.
"In 1946 the national debt was 128 percent of the GNP. Since then the debt has increased because output has increased, but the national GDP today amounts to 33 percent of the GNP," Shafer said.
Shaffer said that only 15 percent of the national debt was owed to foreign countries.
"The rest is owed collectively by the people of the United States to the people of the United States," he said.
RATHER THAN TRY to balance the budget, Shaffer said, efforts should be made to increase productivity and outflow.
"We pay taxes and get benefits. So the debt is within the family."
"The economic well-being of our children depends on the goods and services that will be available to them," he said.
"If we continue policies that increase unemployment, it would drive us into bankruptcy."
Despite the amendment's obvious shortcomings, Shaffer said, it is likely to pass.
"Attribute it to conventional wisdom," he said.
"It is widely accepted because it sounds good."
IN ORDER FOR the proposed amendment to become law, it has to pass several legislative tests.
Francis Heller, professor of Law, said that the first test for the amendment was that it had to pass by a two-thirds vote both in the Senate and the House.
If it passed both the House and the Senate, then it would be referred to the states. Three fourths of the state had been approved to approve the amendment. Heller said.
In a trial-run vote last week, the Senate voted 61 to 40 in favor of the amendment, six votes shy of what they needed. Heller said.
With this amendment, as with all other amendments of the last 45 years, a seven-year period would be given to the amendment to either be ratified or rejected, Heller said. If nothing happens, he said, then the amendment self destructs in five seconds.
The amendment is lengthy, Heller said.
"IN EFFECT, it says that Congress shall come up with an affirmative vote before each fiscal year on how much money will be received." Heller said.
The amendment also has sections allowing for overpending in times of crisis or war. Heller said
One of the problems Heller saw with the amendment was that nobody could say when there was a budget
"Here we are, at the end of July, 1982, and there are government agencies that have not received appropriations. They are operating on continuing resolutions because Concern America wants to give them." Heller said.
In the end, courts would have to interpret all of the ramifications of the amendment. Heller said.
Cases involving the question of what Congress meant by what it said will have to be decided by the courts, Heller said.
Gallery can pe partitioned Movable walls add to museum
The Kress Gallery, on the fourth floor of the Spencer Museum of Art, is a long corridor 10 feet long and 30 feet wide, but because of a giant wall-moving machine it can be divided any number of ways.
It is becoming more and more difficult to think of new ways to set up the walls each time a new exhibit comes to town, said Mark Koeyer, exhibited designer.
There are eight movable walls in the gallery, and more can be built when needed. Each wall is thick 8, toch long and is made of light plywood.
The walls have to be painted and plastered frequently.
"But we have only had them three years, so we haven't exhausted all possibilities vet."
"We try not to make it look temporary." Roeyer said
Now Roever and Tony Grey, maintenance and carpentry supervisor, are painting white over the purple that the
gallery had been painted to accommodate the Susanne Klotz-Reilly sculpture exhibit, which had been in one half of the gallery.
The gallery had been divided into two parts because the Klotz-Reilly exhibit was accompanied by a showing of pastels and watercolors by Peter Thompson, a faculty member in the KU art department.
An exhibit of 56 paintings by Charles Walter Stetson, which opens Aug. 22 and ends Oct 3, will use all of the 490 square feet in the Kress Gallery.
"There's lots of traffic here that the Gallery doesn't get." Raoyer said.
The Spencer Museum has a more complex way of displaying exhibits,
"We never have a show that doesn't drag them in," he said. "It's hard to find a museum with this kind of collection in the middle of the United States." He said that some museums in the Midwest did not have permanent collec-
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Roeyer said,but the Nelson Galley is much larger.
The Nelson Gallery is in Kansas City, Mo.
"They can put on giant shows."
One recent exhibit at the Nelson involved 17 photographs and five galleries, he said. "This building couldn't contain something like that."
He said that Spencer had 12 different exhibits last year among the different galleries but that during the summer they tried not to change exhibitions often.
A quilt show on the third floor, for example, has been there since the spring semester ended.
"with quills you have an instant audience," he said. He said the quills probably attracted more people than any other kind of exhibit.
The museum is now preparing for an American abstract expressionist exhibit, which will open on Oct. 30 after the Stetson show is over. The exhibit runs until November. The Midwest through the Blafert Foundation, a private institution in Texas.
Photo by SUSAN PAGE
Towering toward the blue
Work on the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center continues as workers build supports for the third floor of the center
Commercial angers postmen
A commercial depicting a postman delivering Social Security checks and promoting President Reagan's image has the National Association of Letter Carriers "virtually up in arms on the rape of their image." Charles Coyle, national business agent of the NALC, said in a recent news release.
"We retest the Republican National Committee using a letter carrier to try to put across the idea that President Reagan is responsible for the increase in Social Security," he said in a telephone interview yesterday.
THE POSTMAN, portrayed by an actor in the commercial, hands an older woman her Social Security check and then continues to talk to the camera as he walks his route, saying that Presi-
The increase in Social Security, which began July 1, had nothing to do with the Republican party or its philosophy. Coyle said.
“Reagan opposed the increase,” he said. “He wants to cut the whole Social Security system.”
"We cannot promote a lie. People generally trust a mailman."
NBC ALSO REFUSED to promote the commercial and discontinued airing it July 23, because it "improperly credited the president." officials at
Republican National Committee in Topokai, said that the NALC was "stretching too far."
"Just because they used a letter carrier doesn't mean to insinuate all letter carriers have to feel that way," he said.
"It's like a dog commercial; not all dogs have to eat that dog food."
THE NALC'S OUTRAGE may have been triggered by Democrats, who wanted equal time but were refused it, Brown said.
But Coyle said that that was not true. The non-partisan association was
simply be misrepresented, he said, in sick or sickness. "What the Republican National Committee use Senator Dole to put across the commercial?"
"The NALC started screaming when the Democrats failed," he said.
BROWN SAID the commercial had been brought to the public's eye because of the attention the NALC had given the commercials.
But Merlin Brown, chairman of the
"It brings the public to the 'media'
面," he said. "In the long run, we win.
On the record
BURGLARS STOLE $280 worth of cash and tools from D and D Tire Ic., 1000 Vermont St., sometime between 2:30 p.m. Sunday and 7:40 a.m. Monday, police said yesterday. They have no suspects in the case.
THIEVES STOLE FISHING equipment valued at $284 from a boat at 321 W. 9th St, sometime between 10 p.m. Sunday and 5 p.m. Monday, police said yesterday. They have no suspects in the case.
A NEWSPAPER VENDING machine valued at $250 and containing an estimated $50 in quarters was
stolen from the front of a building at 821 Wa St. either Sunday evening or Monday morning, police said yesterday.
The machine belonged to Kansas City Star Inc., 1729 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo, police said. They have no suspects in the case.
THEVES STOLE CAR stereo equipment valued at $275 from a van parked at 1908 E. 19th St. sometime between 1:30 Sunday morning and 12 p.m. the same day, police said yesterday.
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