Let the market cure America

HE came, he saw, he spoke. His was the sound; the opposition Democrats, sullenly refusing to applaud at many points, provided the fury; and sober reflection reveals the significance of the State of the Union address to be nothing at all.

President George Bush, apparently satisfied with the few cuts that Congress enacted last week, said nothing that indicates a burning desire to balance the federal budget. True, he called for the elimination of some 140 failed government programmes, but that merely repeated the unheeded requests of his predecessors. Congress isn

He also asked that Congress grant him what is called a