Word: roth
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...love] what binds all these couples we know together--the ones who even bother to let themselves be bound? ...Please, let us not bull__ one another about "love" and its duration. --Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint...
This concern is not baseless. Appearing on C-SPAN in an effort to defend this legislation, Rep. Toby Roth (R-Wis.) alluded to this trend of "Anglocentricity," stating, "We do not want any hyphenate Americans in this country; we do not want Italian-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Korean-Americans...." Roth added that we will not repeat the mistakes of the former Soviet Union by allowing multiple languages in our country, thus causing its disintegration...
This simplistic and xenophobic view disturbs many of the language minorities in the United States. What Roth is saying is that Communism had done too little in obliterating the national heritage of the Ukrainians, Armenians, Lithuanians and others, and that we should do a better job of it here in our country than yesterday's "Evil Empire." Moreover, Roth is inferring that all the refugees who were admitted by the U.S. government from the former Soviet Union should give up those same rights here for which they put their lives at risk under the "homogenizing" policies of Communism. What...
...trend of thought voiced by Roth is relative to the definition of what is known under international law as cultural genocide. To make groups of people think and act as Anglophones with no individual or collective will is to take away from them those characteristics that make them human. To control the mind of a population by imposing on it one's own ideological superstructure--language, values, etc.--is the most subtle form of slavery and dehumanization, and is as equally reprehensible as was the physical slavery of the black population of our country in the past...
...Kemp-Roth cut approved in the first year of Reagan's presidency failed to produce revenue in anything like the amounts the theorists had projected. Meanwhile, throughout the Reagan years, though discretionary spending dropped by more than a third, not a single major federal spending program was eliminated. Republicans were still unwilling to embrace Goldwater's frank and fatally unpopular rejection of the big-budget entitlements like Social Security and Medicare. (When the G.O.P. Congress made a feint at Medicare last year, its approval rating plummeted.) The predictable result was a massive increase in the federal deficit, $1.5 trillion over...