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Conservatives believe the human condition should get a lot better once the natural good of the populace is unfettered from the dead hand of Big Government. Even poverty can be cured if only government stops spending money on the underclass. Human beings aren't evil; the government...
...consensus initiated 60 years ago by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Gingrich's success was fed by the smoldering anger of a nation suffering from stagnant wages, chronic overspending by the Federal Government, the failure of the public schools, the decline of public decency and the stubborn inability of the American underclass to rise out of poverty. He bundled up these anxieties cleverly, even brilliantly, and set them ablaze. "I want to encourage you to be a little anxious," he writes in his book To Renew America, "and then I want to encourage you to turn that anxiety into energy...
...liberal welfare state, cut taxes, cut government spending, reduce entitlements, balance the budget, sign the Contract with America, dump Clinton and his liberal friends, give power to the states. Privatize, debureaucratize, downsize! And if America fails to heed his call? "The consequences will be incalculable," he writes. "The underclass of poverty and violence will continue to grow. Our economy will gradually fall farther and farther behind those of our best competitors. Our vision will blur and our civilization continue to lose its focus...
GESO's most recent ploy--the withholding of their undergraduate students' grades--is a destructive move that can't possibly help their cause. We are sure that Yale will not give in to this pressure, since its officials need only to mark down incompletes for this semester. Underclass students can wait to complete their transcripts, and even seniors applying to graduate schools don't need their fall semester grades until February...
Attempting to capitalize on the horror, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said last week that the tragedy was the result of "the welfare state," which had produced "a drug-addicted underclass with no sense of humanity, no sense of civilization and no sense of the rules of life." But real life is more complex. Deborah Evans "was dying to have somebody to love her," recalls her cousin Carolyn Milani. Evans ran away from home after fighting constantly with her mother, acting out to gain the attention of her often absentee father...