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...Some of their ideas--like David Ellwood's two-year limit on AFDC benefits--can get co-opted out of context, while their overall vision--like Ellwood's desire to support work and parenting and 'make work pay'--can get ignored," she continued...
...while President Clinton was discussing these issues in the context of responsibility, congressional Democrats were relying on a more traditional class approach, arguing that proposed Republican cuts in Medicaid and education would only be used to pay for G.O.P. tax cuts for the rich. The President explicitly rejected these class-based appeals for several reasons. First and foremost, he understood that even if attacks on the rich are superficially popular, class-based appeals only divide the American people. They are more concerned about economic growth and opportunities to advance themselves in the future than they are about redistribution of wealth...
Further, the President had endorsed a tax cut for middle-American families as a means of helping them pay for college, and he did not want to appear to be against the general principle of relieving the tax burden Americans face. Indeed, in 1996, within the context of his balanced-budget proposal, the President did endorse a wide array of tax cuts designed to help families pay for education, child care and home ownership--cuts that were fully paid for within the President's budget plan. In contrast, most Americans felt that the more ambitious, across-the-board...
This course, which drew 250 students in 1992, covers major political philosophy concepts in a historical context, examining the effects of those ideas on political movements...
...would be infinitely more surprising to me if scientists were somehow to prove that extraterrestrial life does not exist. For us on Earth to be alone in the galaxy would indeed be stunning. If other life does exist, what we might find is something else: not in the context of little green men or bug-eyed monsters, but in the perspective of where we are now in our development...