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Overall, there was little to complain about in this...
During the Civil War, average Americans did not demand constant knowledge of the inner workings of Lincoln’s cabinet. They did not gripe when they did not receive advance warning of the president’s policies, and they did not complain about not knowing the Union’s military strategy. All that was required to satisfy Americans then was a clear statement of the government’s intentions: the defeat and re-incorporation of the rebellious states into the Union. Now, however, citizens feel that they have the right to know what goes...
...before this change. In preceding generations, citizens disgusted with government functions, standards and operations would take an active role in politics to effect positive change. Today, we just sit in our houses, watch events unfold before us on the television and respond by doing what we do best: complain...
...calls. Instead, they're poised to start chipping away at Koizumi's program. Already, the bureaucrats, many of them allied with the conservatives, have resisted going along with Koizumi's plan to privatize dozens of state-controlled corporations. The Establishment has pushed for another stimulus package this year. They complain that curbing government spending could push a deflationary economy over the edge. When Koizumi's ratings start to fall, which they surely will, they will turn up the heat and wait for his fragile power base of mass appeal and political outsiders to crumble...
...France, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin recently announced a plan to set aside $130 million for daycare. And in Italy, a country with one of the lowest birthrates in the Western world, a campaign is under way to increase annual tax deductions for children from $250 a year - which, critics complain, is totally inadequate - to a more realistic $450 a year. In other words, societies, politicians and policymakers are starting to recognize that families, whether they are nuclear or single-parent or homosexual, are part of the common good - and that children, the precious future of any society, must be cared...