This whole taxpayer fairness debate that we see raging in Washington is really. I think. a reflection of two different visions by two different political parties. the great Republican Party that believes in the great promise of the United States of America throughout all its founding doctunents and throughout all the best dreams and hopes of its founding fathers. that we would have a Nation that would both have the commitment and the capacity to guarantee equality of opportunity to all its citizens and that the policies of the Federal Government should be directed toward assuring that equality of opportunity. Now. the way that plays out in the ordinary life of the average person is for an economy that is robust. vibrant. that has vitality and the ability to change and adjust to changing technologies. changing times and to grow so that each new person who enters the work force or leaves college. leaves high school or emigrates to this country from another nation where their lives are more forsaken. would see that opportunity "for me to build for myself and my family a place in the sun in a period of time when things are going higher for all people." Now. on the other hand the once great and proud Democratic Party has slid into a misperception. one. of the ability. the capability of the democratic free enterprise system as we have seen it work in the United States. I remember seeing this play out in what we now call the days of national malaise. when even the President of the United States became so discouraged with the futility of their policy efforts to turn around the terrible circumstances of both unemployment and inflation. that the new book that came out for the left wing of American politics. that became the book around which they attached their perception of America and what the Government must do in America. was a book entitled "The ZeroSum Game." by a man named Lester Thurow. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The thesis of the book was that growth was no longer possible for the American economy. and since growth was no longer possible for the American economy. we have come to the end of history.
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