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...Liberal Hour, Galbraith...
...case, the omission of the price tag is the weakest point in Kennedy's argument. As Galbraith writes, again in The Liberal Hour, "If we haven't yet learned to mistrust, indeed to ignore, the man who talks about high national purpose and then omits all mention of the price--or perhaps urges strict economy in public outlays as one of his higher purposes--our case could be pretty...
They further ask: Growth for what? For more schools, yes; for reducing unemployment, yes; but for more of all the consumer goods that are epitomized by the catch-phrase "tail-fins," emphatically no. As John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in The Liberal Hour, "There is no assurance merely from expanding output per se that the benefit will accrue to those at the bottom of the pyramid who need the goods the most." Kennedy's call for growth for growth's sake, or merely to out produce the Russians, is, for some, another grave weakness in his campaign...
What distresses the rationalists is that our case, by Galbraith's standards, seems in fact to be pretty bad: The candidate who "talks about high national purposes" and omits most if not all mention of the price appears to be the successful one. Of course, the alternative, to Galbraith, is even worse: the man who urges economy as one of his higher purposes. With such a choice, the people I have termed "rationalists" choose the boycott, decide to vote "NO!", although it is quite clear on which side their sympathies...
Children all over the country go to school on double sessions; the teacher shortage is great and likely to become greater; a college education remains financially inaccessible to many qualified students. "Poor schools," as J. K. Galbraith says, "are, after all, cheap...