Economy Related Program of President Clinton
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That the United States of America is suffering from a declining, stagnating economy has to be taken as a given: it was the signal message of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton during the past year and - as our President-elect - that message must now be assumed to be official policy. Moreover, despite lame-duck Administration claims of improvement in the October-November economic statistics, just this past week the incoming President announced appointments to what he considers the key positions in his Administration - all economy-related. Clearly the changing guard intends to address what the old guard swept under the rug: that America's economic morass is more than just a cyclical matter, that the situation to be addressed by a responsible government has social implications and reverberations beyond the ken of simple economic considerations. One such area of consequence involves the incipient class struggle currently rocking the country. Argument can be made that democratic, "classless," America has always struggled with a clash of classes - a natural phenomenon deriving much fuel from the infusion of so many Old World, class-oriented cultures into the developing nation (Blumberg, 1981). However that earlier argument can be said to stand up, current socio-economic analyses point to the inspiration of Ronald Reagan's presidency, 1981 - 89, as critical to the development of a new era of class division - which is to say, the peoples of America are increasingly looking at th
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ment and the Divine - fallible, human, government intervention is a dead-end road, doomed to failure.
The net result of such government polity, of course, is the de facto decision that an un-Chosen economic underclass must exist. Not only that, but the divisions must be reinforced: we have achieved our high status by virtue of accomplishment, they scorn accomplishment, therefore, their lower status (Slater, 1990).
In so responding to the United States' stagnating economy, Reaganism played upon a curious psychological evolution in the American version of the capitalist economy: the non-identity of the middle class (Slater, 1990). A decade earlier, Richard Nixon had recognized the political purity of this faceless entity, speaking vociferously for the "Silent Majority" whenever the message fit his tactical needs. Ronald Reagan adapted the stratagem to his neo-Calvinist, class structured approach to economics. We, of course, are the wealthy - but can also be the middle class (even if policy flies in the face of middle class self-interest). The technique required the politician-President to constantly redefine the middle class, putting words of accommodation in their mouths, making the compromise a fait accompli.
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