Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is one-half of the reason The Freedom Budget will not have the support of the New Left. The other half is that The Budget's advocates will use conventional coalition politics to secure their ends. "The Freedom Budget is important not only in itself, but also because of the type of political action it calls for to bring about its proposals. It has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO . . . , by leaders of every major civil rights organization in America, leading religious, liberal, democratic radical, and other organizations, as well as by many academics," says the literature...
...country which is being severely divided over the Vietnam War, it would seem almost impossible to bring about a major coalition which does not take that war into account. But The Freedom Budget does just that...
Throughout The Freedom Budget, pamphlet, there is a total disregard--politically and morally--for the Vietnam War: "Hitching the aspirations and long-denied needs of the poor to the outcome of the Vietnam War . . . is neither economically necessary nor morally defensible. . . . We must plan the allocation of our resources in accord with our priorities as a nation and a people...
This is probably the weakest link of The Freedom Budget campaign, at least from a tactical viewpoint. Doves will argue that while poverty is terrible, murdering thousands of innocent people is worse. President Johnson will simply say there isn't enough bread to go around. The Freedom Budget may well be gored on the fence...
...organizers of The Freedom Budget believe it is perfectly possible to organize the masses around an abstraction. It is merely a matter of bringing the dead to life. "There's an absolute analogy between the crusade for Civil Rights and liberties and the crusade which The Freedom Budget represents. . . . To the full goals of the 1963 March The Freedom Budget is dedicated," says the pamphlet...