Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1981. január-június (35. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)

1981-05-21 / 21. szám

AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ Thursday, May 21. 1981. 2. PPBBBKB ÜHMMBIBI Will the Budget Cut Curb Inflation? No less than 283 cuts in the Federal budget have been proposed, most of them wiping out people’s benefits won over years of struggle, such as whole sections of Social Security, Medicaid, day­care, food stamps, housing, mass transit, education, veterans’ pensions, even the $ 255 burial fund if the individual has no spouse or children. The total of cuts is $ 48 billion. Of all the cuts the reduction of the food stamp assistance programs is the most sweeping and devas­tating. The dollar sum of this cut alone comes to S 4.2 billion, less than one-fourth of the $ 20.7 bil­lion increase for the 1982 military budget of $ 226 billion. The Reagan administration has no popular man­date for the cuts. It cannot be repeated too often that 73 % of the eligible voters did not vote for Pre­sident Reagan. This includes those who did not vote at all and those who voted for other candidates. What is hoped to be gained by this madness? A balanced budget? Almost all economists are agreed that the combination of more guns and more tax- cuts for the rich have already made that impossible. Curbing inflation?That too has been doomed by the Administration’s escalation of the many factors that make for runaway inflation. The inflationary spiral is being fed by the Reagan administration through its increase in the Federal budget, the growth of the national debt and consumer credit, the government’s vast new purchases of armaments paid for in super-profit prices, the expansion of credit by commercial banks and the structure of monopoly prices. It is worth noting that at the beginning of Roose­velt’s second term in 1936 the total budget of the country, including the entire defense outlay, came to eight billion dollars, compared to the almost 30 billion dollar budget today. The national debt in 1936 was 30 billion dollars; today it approaches $ 3.000 billion. The interest alone on the national debt is greater than the profits of America’s largest corporation. General Motors, which came to S 3 billion last year, a sum greater than the annual bud­gets of a hundred countries. Why is the huge militáry budget inflationary? Sufficient to exterminate the planet two thousand times over, the expenditure in armaments is a third of the whole national budget. Such funds do not create jobs, since the outlay is spent partly for re­search and development, partly in the production of material-intensive products like nuclear weapons and partly in the gain in super-profits. A truck made by General Motors and used to transport oranges from Florida to New York ex­pends its value in the increase of value of each orange and so remains within the circle of the eco­nomy. However, if General Motors makes a tank, that pulls metals, rubber and instruments out of the economy and its value is soon consigned to the scrap heap, or thrown into the Atlantic Ocean. The labor used in this vast armaments program is waste- fully drawn from the labor force and thus is neither productive nor otherwise useful. H. Let us learn Hungarian TRAVELING How often do planes fig between ... and ...? You can fly from London to Paris in an hour. I’ll see you off at the airport ? Is there a coach service to the airport? How far is it from the airport to the town? I feel sick. Stewardess, a glass of water, please. Have you ever been up in an aeroplane? j, I’ve often flown 11... find this service very convenient. ! want to travel by boat. ' /v/i does our liner I boatJ start for ...? • t what interwals do boats ply between .. . and . ..? '•'i hm does this boat lease? i here is no room left on this boat. I mm which landing-place •to excursion boats start for Esztergom I Visegrádi? Aren’t we supposed ‘■ reserve places in advance? II w long does the cross­ing take? lb is this ship call at... ? II'‘W long docs the ship stop here? Pass up the gangway, idease. UTAZÁS Milyen gyakran járnak gépek ... és ... között? Egy óra alatt Londonból Párizsba repülhet. Kiklstrem a repülőtérre. Van buszjárat a repülőtérre? Mennyire van a repülő­iéi- a várostól? Rosszul érzem magamat. Stewardess, kérem, Jegyen szives egy pohár vizet adni! Utazott már repülő­gépen? Igen, gyakran repültem ... -be. Nagyon kényelmesnek találom ezt a járatot. Hajón szeretnék utazni. Mikor indul a hajónk ... -be? Milyen időközönként közlekednek a hajók __és . .. között? Mikor indul ez a hajó? Nincs hely ezen a hajón. Melyik hajóállomásról indulnak kiránduló­hajók Esztergomba [Visegrádra]? Nem kell helyet foglalnunk előre? Mennyi ideig tart az átkelés? Kiköt ez a hajó ... -ban 7 Meddig áll a hajó itt? Beszállás a hajóba I VON WAYDITCH PREMIER IN HOUSTON The internationally known conductor. Maest­ro Sergiu Comissiona (Baltimore Symphony, American Symphony and the City Opera) in­tends to premier the complete 2 part suite from von Wayditch’s first opera: “Opium Dreams” , plus the ballet music from his opera, “Horus” with the Houston Symphony during the 1983 season. i AHEEIKjU y MAGYAR SZ0 USPS 023-980 ISSN 9194-7990 Published weekly, exc. last 2 weeks in July and 1st week in August by Hungarian Word, Inc. 130 E 16 St. New York, N.Y. 10003. Ent. as 2nd Class Matter, Dec. 31.1952 under the Act of March. 21.1879, at the P.O. of New York, N.Y. Szerkeszti a Szerkesztő Bizottság Előfizetési árak New Yorkban, az Egyesült Államokban egy évre $ 18.- félévre $ 10.- Kanadaban es minden más külföldi ország­ban egy évre $ 20.- felevre $ 12.- Postnjasterj Send address changes to Hungarian Word, Inc. 130 E 16 St. New York, N;Y. 10003. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Enclosed please find a money order for $ 10.- to cover your paper’s subscription renewal. I complete­ly disagree with your political views, but don’t want to forget Hungarian completely. Until I find an­other Hungarian newspaper that is more politically balanced I will read yours. Social programs are good the way they are administered in some count­ries like Austira, but here the way they are designed they make bums out of poeple. You also picture Russia as a Peace Dove when you should know bet­ter. Who is oppressing people in Afganistan, Lithua­nia, Estonia, and Hungary? John Csapó, Pa. In a world bristling with 60.000 hydrogen bombs no government can be pictured, nor do we picture any as “peace dove”. Common sense dictates how­ever, that a nation that has lost 20 million of its people in the last world war, and where there is not a family without war victims will not be anxious to expose its people to a new bloodletting. And it is not the Soviet Union that is stalling the latest ef­fort to halt the mad rush to armageddon by not signing the SALT II treaty. These are matters of record. It is however significant that you who cha­racterize the tens of millions of Americans as bums have developed such dim view about the policies of the Soviet Union. Could it be that your political perceptions are as wrong in one case as in the other? - Editor. THERMAL SPAS IN HUNGARY The above map shows where the medicinal baths are located in Hungary. Bathing culture was introduced in Hungary by Roman troops who sought recovery at the thermal springs of what was then called the province of Pannónia. Medicinal baths were already in use in the Middle Ages, while those Turkish baths which have survived prove that after Byzantium, Buda was the second major city of spas in the Ottoman Em­pire. The greatest boost to the use of medicinal wa­ters came in the 16th century, when an extensive examination of the composition of medicinal waters was begun. The public health law of 1876 ordered that all medicinal baths in Hungary be supplied with a phy­sician and a pharmacy and the equipment necessa­ry to enhance health and comfort. The first detailed map of Hungarian baths was prepared in 1886. La­ter a 1964 law on the use of water defined the ex­ploration, research and utilization of domestic mi­neral and medicinal waters. The National Spa Di­rectorate was set up under whose guidance research work on medicinal waters and the improvement of the efficiency of medicinal baths is still being car­ried out. “the exertion of pure power or a reversion to cyni­cism will not do justice to our people or the prin­ciples of our nation." - Ex-president Carter.

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