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Even if the primary proposal of the new conservative consensus, tax cuts for the wealthy, signifies a genuine concern for national welfare instead of corporate greed, "supply-side economics" cannot succeed in revitalizing America. Their atavistic prescription of freemarket policies to bolster productivity exemplifies the failure of modern economic theory to adapt to the complex problems of either an increasingly interdependent global economy or a fragmented American society...
...respond to the "mandate" of the 1980 election by scurrying to the right will probably find their jobs taken from them by identical-looking Republican challengers in a few years. Jimmy Carter lost because he failed to define how he differed from Reagan's blatant appeal to human greed and senile values--others who follow in his path will follow him to political limbo. This election was a defeat for the half-baked party Carter hoped to forge, not for the party that Franklin Roosevelt did forge and the one that can emerge strong from this year. If 1980 becomes...
...observed. There is the casually inhuman toughness of the last frontier, where, when a drunk, drooling Indian lurches and almost collapses on the author's table in a diner his companion barely looks up as he says "Fuck off, partner." There is the disturbing impact of the short-sighted greed of the oil industry...
Legislators are now more aware of what she described as Harvard's particular brand of "non-commitment, non-participation, and greed...
...addition to the ever present greed and the lust for special advantage, there are a number of reasons for increased deception. The general relaxation of moral codes is doubtless one. Another is the steadily growing pressure for personal achievement in an increasingly competitive world. The incentive to cheat is heightened by the fact that society is more and more an aggregate of strangers dealing impersonally with each other. Finally, there is the snowballing impression that every body must be cheating...