Obama and the End of Decline (Depths of Liberal Delusions Alert)

RealClearPolitics ^ | 11/19/2012 | E.J. "0bama will get me a Pony" Dionne

[mojito]

....The ability to put our government's finances in order for the long run is obviously part of getting back on our national game. We simply cannot afford four more years of fiscal stalemate. But how we achieve balance matters.

If there is one pledge Obama made over and over, it is that he will tend to the rise of economic inequality, a drop in the living standards of many working Americans, the loss of well-paying jobs -- especially in manufacturing -- and curtailed access to higher education.

Across ideological lines, Americans stuck in this downward spiral experience decline not as an abstract issue but as a reality in their own lives. They ask why it is that the country seemed to do a better job of spreading opportunity around 40 years ago than it does now.

Speeding the general economic recovery will solve some of these problems, but Obama needs an unapologetically large and unified program of economic uplift, including policies on taxes, education, training and regional development. He should also look to how new approaches to innovation, unionization, immigration, trade, research and science can contribute to both growth and justice.

Obama has already talked about elements of such a program but he needs to go bigger, pull the pieces together and make the New Prosperity the central objective of his second term.

[MrB]

“economic conditions” = “outcomes”

Leftists are all about the outcomes, and not about examining the steps taken to get to that outcome.

So, to them, that someone is genuinely slothful and lazy is of no consequence - if they are poor and someone else is not, “that’s not fair”.

“Fairness” requires “more equal” outcomes, regardless of effort or quality of choices.