Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exception is Clinton's surprise proposal to rescue Social Security, which everyone around him believes he is determined to see through to a signing ceremony. The President's plan is both bolder and more detailed than anyone expected, even at the expense of alarming some of his liberal allies with a plan for partial privatization. But it is also designed to trap Republicans on the losing side of the political debate over how to spend the budget surplus. Clinton has framed the debate as a choice between saving Social Security and Medicare and cutting taxes for the rich...
...Herbert Hoover had devoted himself to service; John Quincy Adams had returned to Congress and fought against slavery and the Mexican War. But the greatest of all in retirement, Clinton argued, was the world-traveling, peacemaking, home-building Jimmy Carter, who had turned his library into a center of social action, not a museum. Yes, Clinton said, that was it: he wanted to do something useful without getting in the hair of the President who followed...
This pragmatism is a faith that recalls nothing so much as the objectivist philosophy of the novelist and social critic Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), which Greenspan has studied intently. During long nights at Rand's apartment and through her articles and letters, Greenspan found in objectivism a sense that markets are an expression of the deepest truths about human nature and that, as a result, they will ultimately be correct...
...homemade" chili, ostensibly to discuss work. But while Sawyer's chili, which she ate with gusto, tasted fine, her guests got a meal spiked with salt. When she left the room, cameras taped staff members' denigrating comments. The stunt was designed for a segment exposing the fact that in social situations, people often lie. Upon learning of the ruse, some felt betrayed and one even contacted a lawyer. ABC killed the piece, denying Sawyer a major scoop on the possible existence of sycophancy...
...this faith in destiny is pure egotism. To think that you and I were uniquely fated suggests that we were especially deserving of celestial attention. I can see how that would be true for you, but not for me...unless you were selected for my improvement--sort of heavenly social work. No considerate deity would have allowed just anyone to be stuck with...