Word: underclasses
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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...
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...
This goal is particularly important when viewed from a historical perspective. The proportion of poor people in this country, by government definition, has grown steadily since the Second World War. Meanwhile, national productivity has doubled several times over. Must a growing economy also have a growing underclass...
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...
...than pencils. The current trend our government is taking, however, is going to make the gap between those with the chance to attain "the pursuit of happiness" and those without it even larger. If welfare, Medicare, and other programs that favor the poor are cut, then the already large underclass will become even larger, and soon the only people who will have the opportunities that our forefathers wished for everyone will be members of a very exclusive club...