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[Make Money Myself] The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a ...: Garfinkle employs historical insight and data-based economic analysis to demonstrate compellingly the sharp departure of the supply-side Gospel of Wealth from an American ideal that dates back to Abraham Lincoln—the vision of America as a society in which ordinary, hard-working individuals can get ahead and attain a middle-class living, and in which government plays an active role in expanding opportunities and ensuring against economic exploitation. Supply-side economic policies increase economic disparities and, Garfinkle insists, they fail on technical, factual, moral, and political grounds.
[California Students For mccain] ”˜Joe the Plumber’ Set Up a Strong Message, McCain Can’t Let It Go: We’ve listened to Michelle Obama promise that her husband will make Americans “work” in his effort to fix our “broken souls.” We’ve heard the candidate himself say that we should agree to higher taxes in the name of “neighborliness,” and that he’d raise the capital gains tax ”” even if it demonstrably lowered revenues ”” “for the purposes of fairness.” His “tax cut” for 95 percent of Americans is in large part a middle-class dole. He will cut checks to millions who pay no income tax at all and call it a tax cut.In short, Obama’s explanation to Joe the Plumber that we need to “spread the wealth around” is a sincere and significant expression of his worldview, with roots stretching back to his church and his days as a community organizer.
[Mathematical Topper's Weblog] The Dilemma of Thatcher’s Children: In 1979 the peoples of Britain chose a Tory doctrine that resembled the core of the American dream in order to repair the economic damage of the seventies. Margaret Thatcher would set the individual and business free to accumulate wealth as best they saw fit.
[Moral Midnight] Is Obama a Socialist?: As a country, we have ensured that every American has access to telephone service and electricity, regardless of economic status, and Obama will do likewise for broadband Internet access. Obama and Biden believe we can get true broadband to every community in America through a combination of reform of the Universal Service Fund, better use of the nation’s wireless spectrum, promotion of next-generation facilities, technologies and applications, and new tax and loan incentives.
[Webloggin] Obama’s Statism Versus Your Individualism: My big push in the next two weeks is to keep the focus on the two parties’ differing visions of America. It’s much easier to get a handle on the big picture, and avoids the mud-slinging associated with the personalities lined up behind these ideological views. I’ve pointed out that, if you like big government, whether it’s supposedly benefitting you or actually burdening you, pick Obama/Biden, no matter the problems with those candidates. Likewise, if you like smaller government (because, sadly, there is no small government), even though it means you get fewer benefits, go for McCain/Palin.
[orate fratres] Credible Signs of Christ Alive: Case Studies from the Catholic ...: project - or, at least, a tolerable project - frees an organization to use resources for morally untenable projects. The problem was so pervasive that in 1998 the Campaign drafted new guidelines, emphasizing the sanctity of human life and stating clearly that not only must funded projectsconform to the moral teachings of the Catholic Church, but that any organization whose primary or substantial thrust was contrary to Catholic teaching - even if the project itself was in accord - would be denied funding.
[politicalbase.com Blog] '10 Questions' With Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack: Vilsack offered his thoughts on the current political environment, his feelings about how his own state of Iowa -- which has never elected an African-American to statewide office -- has catapulted Barack Obama (D) to the verge of the presidency, Vilsack's own work on energy policy and climate change, his time on the campaign trail for Obama, what his crystal ball tells us about how a future generation might look back on a possible Obama presidency, and whether Vilsack himself would consider serving in an Obama administration. (Recall that I recently predicted Vilsack as the next Secretary of Agriculture.\r\n
[Paperlessworld's Weblog] God Bless America: While in the Senate, these two senators, both who employed a staff that was paid to help them see things, had missed a lot.
[Defencedebates's Weblog] Robert Kagan,End of Dreams, Return of History: without ceasing to be a superpower if the fundamental international conditions continue to support its predominance. So long as the United States remains at the center of the international economy and the predominant military power, so long as the American public continues to support American predominance as it has consistently for six decades, and so long as potential challengers inspire more fear than sympathy among their neighbors, the structure of the international system should remain as the Chinese describe it: one superpower and many great powers.
[World-O-Crap] Jonah Envies Joe’s Plumbers’ Snake: Somebody who loves Jonah should pull him aside and mention that not everybody has read that book by Amity Shlaes blaming FDR for the Great Depression, and there’s still a few people around who actually remember that era (one of them’s running for President) and most Americans don’t regard Social Security as the speartip of Bolshevik revolution, and in general, those of us who live outside the sealed, Biosphere II-like environment of The Corner haven’t yet been fully conditioned to think of FDR as a man who could have been Trotsky if he’d just been a better dancer.
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