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AFTER MONTHS OF PENNY-ANTE POSTURING, THE stakes in the presidential campaign moved sharply higher as Bush and Clinton blew some rhetorical smoke over the volatile issues of race, class and domestic neglect. So stark a reminder of the challenges facing the nation might have helped focus an erstwhile inchoate campaign. But neither candidate seized the opportunity to demonstrate much leadership; instead they bickered about the Great Society and settled for scoring some political points...
...other reformers -- in part because private polls and focus groups showed that his hesitant initial response to the riots had undermined his reputation for decisive leadership in a crisis. Still, some advisers doubt that Bush will make passage of conservative antipoverty programs a real priority, given his neglect of them for the past three years. Said one White House official: "The burden is on us to show that we will fight for this...
...potholes? A major reason is that in its haste, America built on the cheap. Across the nation, state and local governments have tended to award competitive contracts to the lowest bidder, often meaning they got the shoddiest materials and the sloppiest work. In addition, the Federal Government has encouraged neglect by subsidizing new construction or major restructuring at 90 cents to the dollar but awarding no subsidies for maintenance work. One expert likens it to not reimbursing drivers for the cost of changing oil in their cars while paying 90% of the price of a valve job. "The attitude...
Moreover, individual investment in the MAC would help alleviate the problems normally associated with public goods, such as Aristotle's famous "tragedy of the commons." Right now, the MAC suffers the same neglect and mistreatment that afflict public housing projects, local parks and other products of modern socialism...
...politicians, charity can become an excuse for ignoring social problems, not a method of addressing them. A Points of Light Foundation brochure puts the challenge well: "While many Americans prosper, another part of our country dwells on the other side of hope. Illiteracy, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, delinquency, homelessness, neglect, alienation...