Irwin Ross, in Fortune (Feb. 20, 1984), 541 North Fairbanks Ct., Chicago, 111.

Welfare? 60611.
If anybody in Washington is still trying to find fat in the federal budget, he need look no farther than just across the Potomac, to Arlington County, Virginia.
Ross, a Fortune writer, says that while congressional budget-cutters eye Washington's massive welfare and defense outlays, generous fed- eral aid to state and local governments escapes attention. Those gov- ernments "are generally in m...