At Harris Hall forum
Officials rap Reagan plan
By JOHN MILLS
Of the Emerald
Pres. Ronald Reagan's 1982 budget was
castigated at a forum Saturday in Harris Hall.
Local politicians and others said the budget
is the work of an incompetent, is an assault on the
working people and is economically and morally
wrong.
Sen. Ted Kulongoski, D-Eugene, said the
Reagan administration is more concerned about
“institutions like big business, the government
and the arms industry” than people.
Reagan is "asking the poor, unemployed,
elderly, and young to suffer the sacrifice in times
of difficulty," Kulongoski said.
Conservative voters who thought Reagan
would balance the budget "are in for a rude
shock,” said Rep. Margie Hendriksen, D-Eugene.
Reagan's budget has a larger deficit than former
Pres. Carter's 1982 budget, Hendriksen said.
Although 75 percent of the federal budget
was not touched by the cuts, Reagan singled out
human resources and education programs for
political reasons, she said.
"Single parents and women in particular are
going to be very hard hit," Hendriksen predicted.
Retired Admiral John Lee said the increase in
military spending will amount to $1.5 trillion by
1986, raising the proportion of the federal budget
going to the Pentagon from 23 percent in 1980 to
38 percent in 1986.
Scrapping the MX missile system would save
about $100 billion that "we badly need,” Lee said.
The MX will not improve America's defense sys
tem, Lee said.
“Besides the money, there will be resources,
brains and skills going in a completely unproduc
tive direction," he said.
Local social service leaders outlined how
federal budget cuts would affect Lane County
residents in the areas of housing, health, food
programs, jobs, welfare, legal services and
education.
Peggy Mahoney, director of the Lane County
Housing Authority, said the 2,500 people — in
cluding 600 elderly people — who now wait as
long as two years for subsidized housing — face a
33 percent cut.
Steve Ickes, director of the county em
ployment and training department, said 700 jobs
will be lost "right off the top." Most of these will be
jobs for youth, Ickes said.
Lane County legal aid will be eliminated
entirely, said legal services director Rick Hart.
Legal aid often helps women with child support
and violence problems and serves 1,500-3,000
county residents, Hart said.
Kathy White of the Eugene Education As
sociation said $752,000 will be cut from school
lunch programs in Eugene and Springfield.
Hart said the forum was designed to educate
county residents about the effects of the Reagan
budget and to encourage them to organize.
Reagan is pushing his proposal through quickly
to prevent public debate, Hart said.
The forum was sponsored by the Action for a
Fair Budget Committee, a local and national
coalition of more than 100 citizens’ groups.
Forums like Eugene's took place across the
country Saturday.
Hendriksen blasts Reagan cuts
at EMU constituent brunch
A quiet brunch in the EMU
turned into a political tirade Sa
turday, with Rep. Margie Hen
driksen, D-Eugene, lambasting
inconsistent budget cuts.
“We’re going to go through a
period of violence because
people aren’t going to be gen
teelly willing to starve to death in
the wake of the Reagan bud
get,” Hendriksen said at the
brunch, one regularly held for
constituents.
"The most disastrous thing
about the Reagan budget is that
it will not control inflation,”
Hendriksen said. "The Reagan
budget is based on a premise
that the inflation rate will be less
than 7 percent and the interest
rate less than 9 percent.”
Hendriksen said she is a fiscal
conservative and could accept
Reagan’s budget cuts if they
were consistent. Three-fourths
of the budget was left un
touched, she said.
“Only the human services
programs were cut, and these to
pay for the massive increases in
defense expenditures.”
Hendriksen said she also
found inconsistencies in the
state Judiciary Committee’s ap
proach to overcrowded prisons.
She said the committee is sug
gesting a bond measure to pay
for the construction of two new
prisons.
She urged voters to realize
prisons alone do not constitute
a prison system. Building new
prisons would mean cutting the
social programs dealing with
offenders, Hendriksen added.
Most offenders return to the
community where there may not
be enough social programs to
prevent their return to crime,
she said. Many prisoners now
are on work releases due to
crowded prisons, she said, but
many are released without
“gate money" to help them get
started. Often they are forced
back into crime just to survive,
she said.
Hendriksen also said she is
opposed to the state chancellor
of higher education’s proposal
to cut faculty salaries by 5 per
cent in the state's seven col
leges and universities. She said
she would prefer fewer but
stronger programs, rather than
see a dilution of present pro
grams until they become worth
less.
“We may have to face up to
the fact that a population the
size of Oregon’s cannot afford
seven schools of higher educa
tion,” Hendriksen said.
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