University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 1, 1990
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LETTERS to the EDITOR
U.S. has budget options
The U.S. government has developed a budget problem where it can't pay its bills without raising taxes or making more hundreds of billions of dollars.
Government officials seem to forget that there are ways that they could decrease expenses such as:
- Cut back on the numbers of employees as businesses do when they develop a budget problem. They could off government employees, or a moratorium on hiring for a year for years, including the executive branch.
Have the president, vice-president, cabinet members, federal judges, members of Congress and all other government employees take a salary cut across the board of 20 percent or more, as many of the airlines and automobile workers did a few years ago.
Cut the size of the bloated staffs or Congress members by half.
- Stop sending foreign aid to our Communist enemies such as Poland and the Soviet Union (President Bush wants the U.S.S.R. to get a $1 billion gift this year and five times more than that in the future).
*Stop trying to think of new ways of spending, such as the "Youth Corp," which would be another unconstitutional bonanza. Need we go on?*
Many U.S. citizens could think of a
hundred ways to decrease government spending, many by getting rid of unconstitutional government services that would be better and more cheaply handled by private enterprise.
Why can't the government come up with such solutions? I think the answer is obvious. They love big spending programs and the power, prestige and the financial and pork-barrel rewards they get from them.
Only the U.S. people can stop the spending by letting their elected officials know that either they stop spending, or we will get a fresh batch of Congress members who will stop spending.
In response to Michael Paul's column in Friday's Kansas, (and more specifically to your "what constitutes sexism" questions), the Office of Affirmative Action graciously invites you to attend the Sexual Harassment workshop from 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 6 at the University of Kansas Union. Our presenters will glibly answer any such questions. Hope to see you there.
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Dear Colleagues:
In the election Tuesday for the Kansas House of Representatives,44th District, we invite your support for Barbara Ballard, as a person unusually well-qualified to represent the people of this district. She has already served us in a variety of ways - in public education, as a volunteer in hosts of community organizations, in her profession.
We recommend her to you, however, not for resume but because she is the kind of person she is. Intelligent and imaginative, caring, principled and pragmatic, attentive to and tolerant of diverse opinions without abandoning her own, she has a marked ability to work toward the highest level of consensus and, in the process, has often been the teacher of us all.
Even in the midst of political campaigns, we all aspire to be represented by those who will help us define issues, those who will help us understand how to be our best selves, those who will be sensitive to the needs of the less powerful, and those who will work to maintain a high degree of civility in public discourse. The people of the 44th have come to expect such representation. We believe that Barbara Ballard will build on that tradition.
We invite your support for her on November 6th and beyond.
Sincerely,
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The South Lawrence Trafficway is designed to serve through and local traffic.
- Traffic on 23rd Street will decrease 25%.
- 23rd Street and Iowa Street will no longer be the designated truck routes.
- The South Lawrence Trafficway will move traffic around Lawrence at 50-55 mph.
- There are 15 locations along the 14 mile route of the South Lawrence Trafficway where vehicles can enter or exit.
- Five elevated interchanges at K10, US 59, 15th Street, US 40, and the Kansas Turnpike will have entrance and exit ramps.
- Seven access points at Haskell, Louisiana, Kasold, Wakarusa, Clinton Parkway, County Road 438 (Farmers' Turnpike) and Clinton Dam will give local traffic easy access onto and off the trafficway.
- Three township access points including one for the Wakarusa township fire department are also planned.
- There will be no other access to the trafficway.
- Setbacks of 150' are required on each side of the 240' right of way along the 14 mile route.
- Two lanes will be constructed and four lanes of right way purchased at a cost of $41,000,000.
- $37 million of the total cost will be paid by state and federal authorities.
- If approved in November, the South Lawrence Trafficway can be open for traffic by 1995.
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