Word: bootstraps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plans to invalidate AA, they are in effect calling for its abolition. In publications and lectures, Nathan Glazer propagates the view that AA is an instrument of unfairness. He bases his views on what he interprets as the progress of individual blacks into the system as a result of bootstrap pulling and the flexibility of the system operating with a sentiment for equal opportunity. He totally ignores the masses of urban working class blacks still earning one-half the wages of their white counterparts. To Glazer, AA represents unnecessary piles of bureaucratic headaches. We are told women and minorities have...
...present Popular Party government has responded to the current crisis by trying to patch up the Bootstrap program. Its first answer is an advertising campaign in the American financial press that touts the benefits of doing business in "Profit Island, U.S.A.": political stability, tax exemptions, and a very productive labor force. Beyond the advertising, the government's most important plan is a renegotiation of the relation of Puerto Rico to the United States that would preserve the colonial framework but allow some autonomy in setting wages, pollution controls, and tariffs. This "compact of permanent union", now before Congress, would permit...
...working classes has been the fundamental source of Puerto Rico's spectacular growth in the past two decades. While salaries at the top of the scale are near those in the United States, wages at the bottom have been significantly lower. This inequality will continue as long as the Bootstrap philosophy of development determines economic policy. Puerto Rico cannot recreate the economic growth of the 50s. For better or for worse, it has overpriced itself for the most intense labor exploitation...
...While as a state Puerto Rico would lose the power to offer tax exemptions, and island residents would have to pay federal taxes, they claim that the increase in federal assistance would compensate for the losses. When the PNP was in power, from 1968 to 1972, it mismanaged the Bootstrap program, even though its economic stand is pro-business and extremely anti-labor...
Since the principal electoral challenge to the PDP is a conservative statehood party, the Populars will probably direct their strategy toward the interests of the upper and middle classes. They will run a campaign emphasizing the importance of administrative continuity and their dedication to the task of reviving Bootstrap. In any case, the PDP is at an advantage because it has a loyal rural power base that has supported it since...