Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the past two decades, as clubs opened doors to non-members for the first time and created a more outwardly social atmosphere, they became predominantly undergraduate-oriented...
...kindred spirit, but Bill Clinton is no Berliner. The U.S. president has urged Germany?s Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to stay the course of welfare reform, the New York Times reported Thursday, but German voters have lost their appetite for their government?s Clintonesque "Third Way" policies. Schroeder?s ruling Social Democratic Party has been humbled in state elections twice in as many weeks as the party?s traditional support base stayed home to protest the chancellor?s proposed sweeping welfare cuts. Last Sunday?s elections in the former East German state of Thuringia saw Schroeder?s party not only turfed...
...Schroeder has attempted to follow in the footsteps of Clinton and Britain's Tony Blair by combining traditional liberal and social democratic concerns with strict fiscal discipline. But the political center in Germany is well to the left of its American equivalent - even conservative governments have traditionally maintained a level of welfare provision that would make Ted Kennedy blush. "Social Democratic supporters have been shocked by Schroeder?s plans, because they?re so unlike the party?s traditional policies," says Sautter. And while Clinton?s policies were put before the voters at two-year intervals, an ongoing series of state...
...most troubling aspect of Bush's plan, however, is the notion that social services should be performed by religious charities rather than the agents of the public as a whole. Not all social services are the results of "compassion"; rather, they are part of the social compact that accompanies the modern economy. One of the unpleasant, but unavoidable, side effects of the economy is unemployment, and it is unlikely to disappear anytime soon. (For one thing, if unemployment were to fall below 4 percent tomorrow, the Federal Reserve would quickly jack up interest rates until a safe number of people...
...charitable organization, it can motivate people to give of themselves far beyond the call of duty. But when society, as Bush put it, "sees a need to help people," it should not look first to religious groups to provide the answer, especially when the problem is a social and not a spiritual one. The social compact should not be sub-contracted...