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To the editor:
Tiny Carney wonders (in a letter in your May 13 edition) >vhy the media are down playing the so-called $20 billion increase in the fiscal year 1983 budget of the Department of Health and Human Services. Perhaps it is because they are responsible for PRESENTING the facts, rather than MANIPULATING them for their own purpose, as Secretary Schweiker has done.
President Reagan’s initial HHS budget did indeed visualize a $20 billion increase, every penny of which would be in the social security program - for which we can thank Congress, not the Reagan administration. If we separate, as most analysts do, the social security budget from the rest of HHS’ activities, Reagan’s plans were to cut the HHS budget by around $4.5 billion. At the same time, he proposed to increase defense spending by around $33.5 billion. I think we can draw our own conclusions from those figures about where, his priorities lay.
Secretary Schweiker also mentioned that HHS’ budget was $56 billion bigger than that of the Department of Defense - while conveniently neglecting to mention that his figure again included spending on social security. If Reagan has his way in the
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