Poli-Sci
In our society government system programs often do reach those people who are in need the most. In the 1960's there was a war on poverty and $7 billion dollars was put into this war by federal, state, and local governments. Even though there was so much money invested, the poor remained largely untouched. Programs such as Social Security, workers compensation, unemployment, and disability, distribute far more money to the middle class than to the lower ones. There are some programs that actually work, but those still only reach the minority of those actually in need. Programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, subsidized housing, and unemployment benefits are a few that actually help. The way these programs were run, appear to be radical liberalist. It appears that they put an effort in to help the poor, but did not take the time to see if it was going to the right people. Things have just gotten worse many cuts have taken place in the programs and the money is being moved to places where the more powerful want it. As they take away these programs, Classic liberalism is becoming more into view. Any chance for the poor to move into higher class gets slimmer and slimmer. This leaves the poor to subservience to the rich. In o
A doctor by the name of Bernard Winter had this to say about the U.S. health-care system: "It is a costly, wasteful mechanism for funneling money to a sprawling medical industry that encompasses not only physicians and hospitals but equipment manufacturers, pharmaceutical corporations, bank and insurance companies. The impulse that drives this industry is the same that drives every industry-the maximization of profit." This is on doctor who is against the way things are run in our society. It seems that by his attitude in his quote that he is more in this field for the people rather than the profit. This doctor seems more like a radical liberal or maybe a democratic socialist. His goal is to help people; this is good for our society and every other aspect of our nation. The people are not the only thing being taken advantage of just to make a profit, so is our environment. Mass amounts of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, selenium, mercury, lead, and hundreds of other substances continue to be dumped into our environment. All because of lack of maintenance or the high costs of having these materials and chemicals disposed of properly. Profits are higher when corporations can pillage our natural resources at will, dump their problems onto the public, and get the consumer to use at high and wasteful levels. The costs of fixing the disasters caused industries are passed to the taxpayers. Many times it seems that we are forced to choose between economic growth and environmental protection, but without the protection there eventually will be no growth. Maximization of profit comes with disastrous affects, and the people whom contribute could care less. They have money for them and their families and don't care at what costs. I don't even think I can call people like this classic liberalists. I don't see them thinking about anybody, but themselves and how they could make more money. This appears to be an oligarch and one that hurts many more than it helps. These corporations are fighting to get policies passed that will do nothing, but make their very own corporations more powerful. In the process they are destroying our world and many of the people in it who live with the deadly effects on many of these chemicals. It doesn't seem like the government has much impact on these people. It's almost like they have their own Tory Corporatist society within their corporations. CG&P Annual 2000-2001 Housing is another policy that reflects the many inequalities in our society. Homeowners in the richest 20% of our population receive almost 60% of housing subsidies in the form of property tax exemptions, interest deductions, and capital gains deferral on housing sales. Only one-quarter of poor households receive any kind of housing subsidy. In policies like these it is just the rich trying to help the rich make more money. Obviously this is the problem with classic liberalists, they rarely make attempts to help the poor out of their low-income status. Ideas like these are what make our country weaker. Without helping the lower income part of the population our economy slowly falls. We need the policies of radical liberalists, who at least try to help, or even democratic socialist who bombard societ
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