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“It’s time we recognized the full potential of our waste—putting as much of it as possible back into the marketplace.” So says Barbara Blum, Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and frankly, we’d rather not know what she’s talking about.

Vernon Jordan, of the National Urban League, and several other panjandrums met for two and a half hours with President Carter to discuss the budget, and came away much displeased. Carter wants to hold the budget deficit under $30 billion; but if minorities are slighted in doing so, Jordan warned, “it will be impossible to contain their despair or for them to sublimate their anger through the political process. It is a distressful situation,” Jordan continued, like a malignant Micawber, “and it is a situation that we cannot contain.” A shorter way of putting it would be, “Shell out, or there’ll be riots”—although to say that would have made clear, for the umpteenth time, that what “civil rights” leaders want is not civil rights, but special privilege. And, no doubt, the two-and-a-half-hour sessions at the White House which flow therefrom.

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“It’s time we recognized the full potential of our waste—putting as much of it as possible back into the marketplace.” So says Barbara Blum, Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and frankly, we’d rather not know what she’s talking about.

Vernon Jordan, of the National Urban League, and several other panjandrums met for two and a half hours with President Carter to discuss the budget, and came away much displeased. Carter wants to hold the budget deficit under $30 billion; but if minorities are slighted in doing so, Jordan warned, “it will be impossible to contain their despair or for them to sublimate their anger through the political process. It is a distressful situation,” Jordan continued, like a malignant Micawber, “and it is a situation that we cannot contain.” A shorter way of putting it would be, “Shell out, or there’ll be riots”—although to say that would have made clear, for the umpteenth time, that what “civil rights” leaders want is not civil rights, but special privilege. And, no doubt, the two-and-a-half-hour sessions at the White House which flow therefrom.