Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis should pledge to use tough negotiation to open Japanese and European markets to American foodstuffs. Japanese agriculture is protected so heavily that their consumers pay 27 percent of their disposable income on food, compared to 14 percent in the U.S.
Because of the Reagan Revolution liberals now think they erred in the past. They no longer propose indiscriminate spending programs and are less likely to support free handouts. Nowhere is this more evident than in Michael Dukakis' campaign.
His campaign uses the theme of competence to highlight the new type of budget-conscious Democrat who supposedly has matured during the last eight years. Dukakis' handlers point to their candidate as the best and brightest example of this new breed.
To stress this altered liberal outlook, Dukakis talks about more strictly enforcing income tax collection and raising taxes only as a last resort. He emphasizes turning welfare programs into workfare programs. (In Massachusetts he has instituted the Employment and Training Choices Program, which encourages people to work instead of sitting...
Dukakis repetitively stresses the need to make tough choices on defense programs, such as slashing funds for the MX missile and the Strategic Defense Initiative. And he proposes a new government/business partnership in which the government will require private businesses to provide health insurance for every employee. In doing so...