We Can All Do Better (26 page)

and consumption,
39

and deficits,
31

and downsizing,
79

and everyday lives,
20

and financial reform,
60

and government,
95
,
97
,
101

growing and uplifting,
116–117
,
118

and improvement in future,
158

and inequality and mobility,
76

and inflation,
24

and infrastructure,
28

and leverage,
58

in nineteenth century,
107

and Obama,
12
,
18
,
48

and reserve currency status,
30

and seas,
132

and spending,
24

and stimulus,
17–18
,
19–20

and strengths,
7

and structural changes,
89

and taxes,
18

and team play,
72

and the unemployed,
88

and U.S. debt,
27

as world's dominant,
27

Economy (world),
19
,
20
,
24
,
58

Education,
x
,
117
,
141

and adaptability and empathy,
86

and college completion rate,
84

and college's unaffordability,
77
,
79

and debt,
77

and ethics of caring and personal responsibility,
145

failing schools,
69

good public,
80

lifetime and vocational,
84–87
,
156
,
158

and Lincoln,
96

and No Child Left Behind,
100

and science and math,
117–118

and strengths,
7

and taxes,
52

and teachers,
86

Egypt,
27

Eisenhower, Dwight

and defense spending,
133

and foreign policy,
111

and government,
97
,
98
,
99

and Suez Canal,
27

wisdom of,
7

El Salvador,
112

Elections,
135–138
,
146–153

Energy,
48
,
52
,
89
,
101
,
123
,
125

England,
4
,
121
,
152

Entitlement spending,
17
,
24
,
32

Environment,
x
,
xii
,
69
,
101
,
141
,
157
,
158

Europe,
124

and America,
6
,
105
,
107
,
108
,
109

and debt and banking,
24

Eastern,
108
,
117
,
119

and economic growth,
122

and euro bailout,
126

and immigration,
119–120

and Normandy and World War II,
11
,
97

Fannie Mae,
22
,
57–58

FBI,
101
,
104

Fears, J. Rufus,
41

Federal Election Commission (FEC),
146
,
148
,
149

Federal Reserve

and company assets,
23

and financial collapse,
17
,
58–59

and inflation,
24
,
31

Fifteenth Amendment,
135

Financial crash and crisis,
6

destructive ramifications of,
102

and economic mismanagement,
10

and government response,
17–18
,
39
,
60

and greed and bad government policy,
54–59

Financial industry,
2
,
52
,
54–60
,
80
,
156
,
161

Financial reform,
52
,
59
,
95

Fitzgerald, F. Scott,
128

Ford, John,
90

Foreclosures,
23
,
33
,
54
,
92

Foreign policy,
x
,
xii
,
xiii

and China,
121–131

and control of seas,
132

and coups,
112

and ideals and human rights,
107–109
,
111
,
113
,
114
,
128

and imperialism,
115

and Kennan and containment,
111
,
112–113
,
115

and Kennedy,
111–112

and leading by example,
116–117
,
156

and mass media,
3

and militarism,
116
,
122
,
156

and modernized, adaptable forces,
132

need for another path in,
115–116
,
133
,
152
,
156
,
160

in nineteenth century,
105–107

and objectives and policymaking,
133

and post-Vietnam interventions,
112
,
113–115

and voting,
144

and Wilson,
109–111

Fox News,
3

France,
42–43
,
110
,
119
,
120

Franklin, Benjamin,
43

Freddie Mac,
22
,
57–58

French Revolution,
42
,
44

Gallatin, Albert,
106

Garner, John Nance,
91

Gasoline,
26
,
38
,
39
,
40
,
41
,
89

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,
111

Germany,
81
,
110
,
119
,
121
,
125
,
152
,
160

Get America Working!,
73
,
89

Gingrich, Newt,
141

Girls on the Run,
67–68

Glass–Steagall Act,
54–55
,
95
,
102

Global warming,
100
,
124
,
161

Goldwater, Barry,
98

Gore, Al,
147

Government,
x–xi

as alleged problem,
95
,
98
,
99
,
100
,
157
,
159

animosity toward and disgust with,
12
,
141–142

and bureaucracy,
103–104

and compromise,
142

and costs on businesses,
87–88

and economy,
95
,
97
,
101

effectiveness and reform,
103–104

employees,
101–102
,
103

and general welfare,
95–104

and Great Depression,
94
,
95

ineffectiveness,
52

and job creation,
21–22
,
25
,
89

lack of confidence in,
18
,
21
,
80

and selflessness,
67
,
69–70

trust in,
62

and vocational education,
84–85

Grant, Ulysses S.,
107

The Grapes of Wrath
,
90

Great Britain,
27
,
29
,
109
,
110
,
119
,
120

Great Depression,
19
,
24–25
,
91–95
,
102
,
118
,
155

Greenspan, Alan,
58–59

Greenstein, Scott,
63–64

Grenada,
113

Grey, Zane,
160

Guatemala,
112

Gulf Cooperation Council,
29

Gulf War,
13

Guzmán, Jacobo Árbenz,
112

Hamilton, Alexander,
7
,
43–44
,
141

Hanna, Mark,
49

Hart, Gary,
40
,
41
,
144

Health care,
x
,
xii
,
64
,
77

and access,
117

and China,
128

and companies,
87–88
,
158

and deficit reduction,
32

and elderly,
87
,
99

and ethics of caring and personal responsibility,
145

and insurance,
79
,
90
,
97
,
99
,
158

and lobbying,
52

and reform,
14
,
48
,
52
,
158

spending,
40
,
41

and state and local governments,
2
,
33
,
34

and taxes,
52

Hearst, William Randolph,
137

Helms, Jesse,
139–140

Helms, Mrs. Jesse,
140

Helsinki Accords,
114

High-tech,
85–87
,
125
,
129

Hill, Ed,
92

Hockett, Robert,
19

Holland,
43

Holocaust,
117

Homelessness,
69

Homestead Act,
96

Hoover, Herbert,
91
,
92

Housing,
24

bubble,
58
,
78

bust,
18
,
19
,
21
,
22–23
,
57
,
78
,
102

and foreclosures,
23
,
92

and home-equity loans,
77–78

and mortgages,
21
,
22–23
,
57
,
58
,
59

and subsidized ownership,
80

Huang Nubo,
124

Huerta, Victoriano,
109

Hughes, Charles Evans,
91
,
92

Hughes, Karen,
100

Hungary,
106
,
111

Iceland,
124

Ideology and ideological rigidity,
36
,
45
,
49
,
50
,
100
,
116
,
161

Immigration and immigrants,
xi
,
107–108
,
117–121
,
143

Immigration and Nationality Act (1965),
119

Income

declining median household,
76

and home-equity loans,
77–78

inequality,
19
,
156
,
157

and retirement,
79
,
145

India,
119
,
127

and currency,
29

and defense,
122

rise of,
5

and U.S. foreign interventions,
115

and water resources,
123

and workers,
19
,
77