Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Platform: Increase police protection, hire professional mediators to negotiate housing policies, provide aid to homeless, create affordable housing, oppose rent control, support neighborhood groups...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo heading their 1992 ticket, George Bush's aides cannot contain their glee. "What a simple campaign it would be," says Rich Bond, the Bush adviser who knows Cuomo best. "Roger Ailes already has the TV spots conceived. Pictures of decaying streets; rotting buildings and homeless people everywhere; clips of Mario's well-known testiness and bullying; voiceovers talking about New York's tax burden and the state's bond rating, which is the third worst in the nation. And all of it tied together with a nifty tag line: 'Cuomo: he'll do for America what...
...current political climate is filled with exited obituaries for Great Society Liberalism, about how government aid-that is, our aid-to the needy,the unemployed and the homeless is wasteful, inefficient and ultimately incapable of making any real difference. Freed from the shackles of empathy and compassion, many have begun to ask, Why should I feel obligated to support (in form of taxes, for example) the poor or the homeless? Why don't they make it on their...
...brick in your toilet, and forget about protesting Bush's abandonment of the wetlands. Teach for America, and forget about protesting the cuts in school funding. Volunteer at a homeless shelter, and forget about protesting the economic policies that put the homeless on the street...
...amount of homeless shelter volunteering will get people jobs where there are no jobs to be had, or get them housing when there is none they can afford. A volunteer may make it better for the few people she touches, but only at the macroeconomics level can government and big business change the inequalities that keep the underclass under...