Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.
The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.
We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.