Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennedy's specific appeals were for programs both unrealistic and increasingly unpopular with many Americans. But on this night this audience, out of conviction or nostalgia, or a little of both, cheered his plea for national health insurance, environmental protection and his $12 billion federal jobs program ("We cannot solve problems by throwing money at them, but we dare not throw out our national problems onto a scrap heap of inattention and indifference...
...hand to his ear and listened to an offer from the Senator. From the couch, Strauss watched intently. As Kraft repeated the terms out loud-Kennedy would abandon the agreed-upon roll call votes if Carter would concede three economic planks calling for wage and price controls, a jobs program and giving priority to fighting unemployment-Strauss got to his feet and let loose. "The hell with that," he said. "No deal. Get Hamilton in here." A few minutes later, Jordan bounded into the trailer. He had just talked to Wagner himself. "You hear that goddam offer," Jordan said angrily...
...parties, two sharply different pictures of what America is." Though his portrait of the Democrats was rather fuzzy, he painted a bleak Republican future of despair: "the surrender of our energy future to the merchants of oil, the surrender of our economic future to a bizarre program of massive tax cuts for the rich, service cuts for the poor and massive inflation for everyone...
Democrats, on the other hand, maintain that they have "put the Federal Government back in the business of serving our people." Their platform boasts of the additional spending under Jimmy Carter: "Funding for education up 75% over the Ford budget; Head Start up 73%, basic skills programs up 233%, bilingual education up 113%, Native American education up 124%, summer jobs up 66%, Medicare up 54%, National Health Service Corps up 179%, Women, Infants and Children Program...
...victory of the Kennedy minority report at the convention puts the Democratic Party behind a $12 billion antirecession program to create at least 800,000 additional jobs. The party also pledges not to fight inflation by any policy that will lead to high interest rates or substantially increased unemployment. Thus the assembled Democrats place unemployment ahead of inflation as the nation's chief economic problem...