Download PDF by Paul Simon: Our Culture of Pandering

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By Paul Simon

ISBN-10: 0585496463

ISBN-13: 9780585496467

ISBN-10: 0809325292

ISBN-13: 9780809325290

As we expand our perspectives, embody our alterations, foster developments in technology and know-how, and collaboratively boost the political, social, and academic underpinnings from which we construct proficient and efficient lives, we've got a lot to be pleased with as a state and as a people.

 

But we're tempted—particularly during periods of political unrest and unbridled patriotism—to forget about the far-reaching repercussions of a society that caters to funds and tool. In Our tradition of Pandering, former U.S. Senator Paul Simon interrogates the arenas of politics, media, faith, and schooling to decry the tense practices that confuse public provider with profit-making ventures or reputation contests, that compromise the easiest pursuits of the wider inhabitants to assuage a strong few. Boldly and eloquently contributing to a cumulative figuring out of ways we will be able to construct a sturdier, extra moral beginning for the long run, Simon indicates proactive, long term options to the issues that threaten our country’s ethical, monetary, and highbrow well-being—problems which are more and more exacerbated by means of our tradition of pandering. 

 

Lest we develop complacent and our state static, Simon urges us to call for extra from the political applicants who chase greenback indicators and cater to polls, to elevate our expectancies of neighborhood and nationwide media shops that recycle gossip and peddle scandals whereas overseas coverage and foreign information obtain back-page therapy or no remedy in any respect. He asks us to think about the consequences of church buildings that spend extra money home improvement their constructions than assisting these in want inside their very own groups and through the international, and he presses us to recognize the fabulous, long term outcomes of colleges that drop their educational criteria to maintain their reputations and keep funding.

 

Our tradition of Pandering is a stalwart and earnest name to motion from a steadfast and depended on recommend of revolutionary public coverage. Leavened with altruism and wealthy with compassion for electorate of the USA and past, current and destiny, this crucial and cautioning treatise advocates real management within the nation-states of politics, media, faith, and schooling. In his trademark lucid and synoptic kind, Simon supplementations up to date examples of pandering in our society from a breadth of assets with observation and interpretive knowledge garnered from a life of public service.

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The real figure of bonds held outside the United States is sub- S 25 s S Pandering in Politics s stantially greater than $805 billion. In effect, our largest foreign aid expenditure is in the form of interest payments to the wealthy. By competing in the private domestic market for borrowing, the federal government also sends interest rates up, a hidden tax on people who borrow to buy a car or a home. Higher interest rates also discourage long-term investment that would add to the nation’s productivity.

Crime Listen to candidates for office, and at some point there is likely to be an easy applause line: They are really going to be tough on crime! A few in the audience may not join in the paroxysm of applause, but most will. Few candidates suggest that, yes, we should be tough on crime, but we should also be smart on crime. Where has this clamor to be “tough on crime” led us? We have a higher percentage of people in our prisons and jails than any other nation—and we have one of the highest crime rates.

The public image—fostered by irresponsible political speeches—is that we are overtaxed. When compared with western Europe and Japan (when their industrial compact is included), we have a lower total tax burden—federal, state, and local—as a percentage of income than any of these nations, with the possible exception of Turkey. ” In the parliamentary system, that is fairly simple, but not in ours. To the credit of the British, their economic system turned around when they exercised fiscal discipline, including raising taxes.

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