Word: whitmans
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There is a wonderfully telling moment in Bradley Whitman's piece "Welfare's Lost Children." (Opinion, Sept. 30) One can almost see the hand-wave when he says that "such a policy would force many unwed mothers to give up their children to the state, but in the long run, the benefits to society would outweigh the costs." Even leaving aside all of the other laughable defects of this assertion, like the reality that raising a child in an orphanage is orders of magnitude more expensive than raising that same child in its family, there is something idiotically perverse going...
...relative novice like Pat Buchanan look like George Washington. His only turn in public life was as chairman of the board of International Broadcasting for eight years, a position that gave him a little exposure to Washington. His foray into campaign politics so far consists of advising Christine Todd Whitman in her successful run for the New Jersey governorship in 1993. So he takes comfort in the example of Wendell Willkie, the utilities executive and political neophyte who grabbed the G.O.P. nomination in 1940. Forbes is willing to spend $10 million of his own money--an estimated...
...incredulous. "Her work contradicted everything that had come before," says Sheldon Danziger, a public-policy professor at the University of Michigan. As experts scratched their head, most politicians salivated. O'Neill had confirmed a "silver bullet" solution to a vexing social problem. Only New Jersey's Republican Governor, Christine Whitman, courageously refused to endorse O'Neill's conclusions, preferring to wait for the results of a larger and more objective investigation...
Class Differences. Whitman wrote, "I see an aristocrat/ I see a smoucher grabbing the good dishes exclusively to himself and grinning at the starvation of others as if it were funny,/ I gaze on the greedy hog." By the time of the Civil War, the poorest half of Americans owned just 1% of all assets...
Politics. Corrupt and dispiriting, a procession of mediocre Presidents (Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan), spineless on slavery, men whom Whitman called "our topmost warning and shame...