The Bush administration has steadily gutted the democratic regulatory state begun by the New Deal and Great Society. This dogmatic commitment to rapacious corporate domination, combined with the administration's hostility to civil rights, has led to outright attacks on environmental protection, labor rights, public education, and the living standards of low-wage workers. In addition, the right's cultural war in favor of the misnamed "traditional family values" threatens to turn back the crucial gains of the movements for women's and gay and lesbian equality. The Bush administration's continued hold on power for another four years would be a devastating blow to the economic security and cultural freedoms of most Americans, as well as to the prospects for peace and stability in much of th...
It was nice meeting you, Assemblyman Mike Morrell, at the Sept. 11 ceremony at Chaffey College; you seem like a nice fellow, but why are you so negative about our country? I was aghast when I read in your Sept. 16 Point of View that you feel that FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society were "raw deals for the taxpayers." I recall my grandparents telling me how FDR's Social Security program raised millions of seniors out of poverty and relieved the constant worry of all families in providing for elderly and disabled family members.
The commentary "The nest-egg myth" by Susan Jacoby in your May 22 edition was spot on regarding the inability of many future seniors to provide for their retirement years. While it is undeniable that entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will need adjusting if the social contracts of the New Deal and the Great Society are to be honored, the current Republican budget model authored by Rep. Paul Ryan and adopted by the Republican caucus is not an adjustment -- it is a breach of that contract -- regardless of how long they delay full implementation or how large or small the eventual premium support (vouchers) becomes.
The masses are said to have cried out for relief and to have pressed their political representatives to enact protective legis- lation. [...] emerged, most markedly during the Progressive, New Deal, and Great Society periods, a profusion of government programs, regulatory agencies, and direct government par- ticipation in economic life (divine intervention, as it were), which served to shield the public from the otherwise crushing weight of brutal laissez-faire capitalism. The nineteenth century's dominant ideology, a distinctly American version of laissez faire, seemed increasingly unable to restrain this grasping for economic advantage via enlarged government power.
[Joseph Schwartz] calls for a public philosophy centered on the concept of "the solidarity of citizens," meaning "the moral commitment to the equal worth of persons and to the equal potential of human beings to freely develop and pursue their life plans," based on a sense of shared fate. The story of increasing inequality, he proposes, can be understood as the story of eroding social solidarity: "a political majority no longer exists in favor of social equality" as it did - however unevenly and inconsistently - in the New Deal and Great Society eras. To rebuild a governing majority committed to social equality means to revive Americans' commitment to the solidarity of citizens. The most exciting chapters of this book, thus, are those where Schwartz develops this idea of solidarity and u...
The "Ownership Society" seems poised to make a comeback, just in time for the president's second inaugural on Thursday. Some might remember the Ownership Society: It made a brief appearance during last fall's campaign, as the president and his handlers took a half- hearted stab at what the elder George Bush once called "the vision thing," before it vanished from sight like some Republican Atlantis. Yet it still could serve as a useful and inspiring framework with which to package and sell the president's second term agenda. What is an ownership society, as opposed, say, to a Great Society or a New Deal? To our way of thinking, it's a society in which all Americans take a greater ownership stake not just in their personal property and affairs, career choices, health care and retirement, ...
Popular presidential history prefers sound bites to epic narratives. FDR brought us the New Deal; Lyndon Johnson, the Great Society; while Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush both helped usher in the end of the Cold War - all remarkable accomplishments. Yet their real stories include many more chapters. These presidents changed more than history's top headlines. And the current occupant of the White House is no exception. Prosecuting the global war on terror - including the response to the September 11 terrorist attacks - will no doubt fill many pages of President George W. Bush's narrative. But for the next two days, the White House is hosting an event that should better frame an underreported part of President Bush's legacy, his Faith-Based and Community Initiatives program. The confer...
With Republican fortunes dipping along with President Bush's poll numbers, some prognosticators think a perfect storm is forming for the Democrats in the mid-term elections. But to tear down a fortification like the existing Republican- run Congress, the Democrats need a clear and concise program - like Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, the Kennedy-Johnson New Frontier and Great Society, the Ronald Reagan anti-tax revolution or even the Newt Gingrich Contract with America.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In his annual State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress tonight, President Bush detailed several domestic policy proposals on issues ranging from health care to retirement security. Experts from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) applauded the speech for outlining a broad vision that potentially will "reshape the relationship of people with the economy. While FDR had his 'New Deal' and LBJ had the 'Great Society', it is becoming increasingly clear President Bush wants to create an 'Ownership Society,'" said John C. Goodman, president of the NCPA. "From health care accounts to personal retirement accounts for Social Security, the goal appears to be to move people from being dependent on the state to owners of thei...
There was a time when Democrats were better at the craft of politics than Republicans. Given the dominance of congressional Democrats for the 40-year period from 1954 forward and the overall policy impact of FDR's New Deal and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, Democrats certainly knew what they were doing. But those days are gone, and against all expectations, it is the Republican Party that is better at politics nowadays. The simplest test is this: George W. Bush's convention ended last week with the president positioned exactly where he wanted to be for the remainder of the campaign. He united and energized the party, mounted a robust defense of his first-term record, queued up a second-term agenda, reminded voters of the stakes, pointed out deficiencies in his opponents and re-emphasiz...
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