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Imagining Freedom for the 21st Century: A Presidential Candidate’s Press Conference, Part 2

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Ladies and gentlemen of the press, America is entering the 21st century as still one of the greatest nations in the world. We have had a booming economy for most of the last two decades that has created tens of millions of new jobs throughout the land. The inventiveness of the citizens and residents of the United States has helped generate a new economic revolution of computerized information, communication, and global exchange. Our standard living, in terms of both the quantity of things our incomes can buy and our quality of life, has expanded dramatically during this time. And while many other parts of the world have suffered wars and various internal conflicts that have rained down destruction and death on millions of people, the United States has enjoyed a relative tranquillity and peacefulness of life here at home. But in spite of these ...

More Mideast Bills

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Surveying the history of England in The Rights of Man , Thomas Paine noted that "a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes." The United States government has followed faithfully in England's footsteps. But it has added an innovation to the ancient formula: to carry on taxes, it raises peace as well. Each time an American president gathers the leaders from Israel and the Arab world in order to advance the "peace process" the American taxpayer takes a major blow to his pocketbook. But somehow the peace process is never complete. I call this power that the president takes with him to Camp David or to Wye River the American Taxpayer Express Card. No president leaves home without it. The risk to American taxpayers is great because presidents hold ...

Imagining Freedom for the 21st Century: A Presidential Candidate’s Press Conference, Part 1

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 The threshold of the 21st century, the American people are once again faced with having to choose a president of the United States. A hundred years ago, when the 20th century began, the issue of who was elected president of the country must have seemed of some importance, but not of great concern to the average American’s daily life. For most people in the United States at that time, their family and their local small-town community affairs not only dominated everyday personal concerns (after all, in 1900, 60 percent of the population still lived in rural areas compared with only 25 percent in 1990), but government hardly intruded into their lives. Regulatory agencies were few in number, taxes were low at all levels of government, and what government activities did exist were mostly ...