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There is no all-embracing solution, at any price, for the complex malaise of the underclass. It would be more realistic???and much less inflationary?to press for a mix of endeavors, in which the Government would reorder some social spending and new efforts would be made by private business and by members of the underclass themselves...
...Carter's view, the U.S. must conserve if it hopes to leave "a decent world for our children and our grandchildren." He said the sacrifices he would ask of Americans "will be painful" but also "gradual, realistic???and, above all, fair." Well aware of the difficulties in getting his program through Congress, he predicted special-interest groups would proclaim "sacrifice is fine, as long as other people do it." Pointedly looking beyond Congress, Carter predicted that the fate of his plan "will not be decided here in Washington, but in every town and every factory, in every home...
...since the Industrial Revolution," he says. "Business leaders must point out forcefully and persuasively those government policies or actions that prevent the private economy from achieving its full potential and making its maximum contribution to the common good. But to be effective, the approach must be forward-looking and realistic???not mere nostalgia for the past or a rearguard action to preserve positions of narrow self-interest." If businessmen do not develop such an approach, warns David Rockefeller in his earnest and low-voiced way. or "if they do not concern themselves with the full spectrum of problems civilization faces...
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