Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real problems, though, come in figuring how to pay for this largess. To begin with, Dole is siding with supply-side economic theorists--whom he once derided--and their argument that tax cuts spur growth by giving consumers more money to spend and businessmen more to invest, thus creating additional tax revenues to help pay for the tax cuts. Dole is figuring that a quarter of the $551 billion in cuts can be recaptured this way. That's rather modest by the standards of earlier supply-siders, but still very iffy...
Stengel reveals the shallow roots of his argument that civil engagement is alive and well in this country when he cites Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow's suggestion that we are eschewing large, bureaucratic organizations for smaller, flexible ones that "fit our life-style." This sounds more like convenience-store values for those who can't be bothered with deep commitment. Stengel's apologist thinking is especially disturbing in the context of a society in which the middle and lower classes are rapidly losing ground while a small group of the economically elite amasses more and more of the nation...
...Mars research," says TIME's Jeffrey Kluger. "Appropriations like that are always conditional, dependent on future results which may or may not materialize." Kluger says that a discovery of this magnitude tends to generate great enthusiasm and commitment: "It is unlikely that a legislator could make a persuasive argument right now that space exploration is superfluous. This discovery has already generated a lot of momentum. It will be a long time before it stops rolling." -->