The Obama administration response was conservative consensus. Though it launched the largest fiscal stimulus in U.S. history and advocated for financial reform, those measures were designed to stabilize and fix the existing system of capitalism, not to reorganize it. The fundamental economic model—asset price inflation, financialization, and hopes about markets—remained intact. The government protected largeContinue reading “Finance”
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climate change
The Bush Sr. administration was hesitant to sign the Kyoto Protocol because they believed that the reduction of emissions would cost the U.S. a lot of money especially in energy-intensive sectors. Also the U.S. have a concern that developing countries would not be up held to the same standards which would put the U.S. inContinue reading “climate change”
profligacy
Andrew Bacevich’s argument is that US foreign policy in the Middle East motive is to sustain American profligacy, and not to combat terrorism. The American way of life is constructed upon unrestrained material consumption and has a heavy dependence on availability of cheap oil and a smooth international marketplace. Therefore , war is in theContinue reading “profligacy”
Rebellion
The sagebrush rebellion began as backlash against increasing federal regulations of public lands in the late 1970s. The rebels wanted federal lands returned to the states. The support of these rebellions were western ranchers, miners, local and state officials, and resource extraction industries as they saw federal agencies and environmentalists as outsiders that are interferingContinue reading “Rebellion”
Jerry Falwell
Jerry Falwell was instrumental in the formation of Christian rights, because of his founding of the moral majority which was a leading national religious organization in the early 1980s. Falwell combined traditional evangelical theology with a politically conservative agenda, which positioned the Christian right as a force in national politics. His media presence as aContinue reading “Jerry Falwell”
deindustrialization
The working class was recycled by the process of displacement and reabsorption during a transitional period. Many workers had relied on the manufacturing jobs and once those jobs start disappearing many become unemployed. For African Americans men this was an exclusion from stable employment. These men started relying on informal works, low paying jobs thatContinue reading “deindustrialization”
Working class
What Wallace did was portray working class voters as the victims of liberal overreach. They set themselves as the hero’s for those that felt underrepresented, like those that felt alienated by the anti-war protesters. Richard Nixon focused on law and order. The populist rhetoric resonated for those that saw anti- war protesters as disconnected fromContinue reading “Working class”
Division
Christian Appy argued that Vietnam was a “ working class?” war because most that were drafted were working class people and most of them were the age of 19. The parents of these children were waitresses, factory workers, truck drivers, clerks and, etc… which are working class people. “ you would be lucky to findContinue reading “Division”
segregation
The New York civil rights struggle and Boston schools challenge the view of their being by showing the discrimination that is happening in the schools and the treatment they are getting to get hired. “ There were only 2 bathrooms for sixteen hundred kids” Adian Back. They could not flush the bathroom which led theContinue reading “segregation”
ECONOMY
The Minutemen missile’s economic impact is immense, especially at the local level. Of course the cost of making the missiles is very high but It created jobs, and supported many paying jobs like Boeing. Boeing was the one that assembled and tested the minutemen. Even though the article doesn’t mention how much they made IContinue reading “ECONOMY “
Will Wright 