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Through all of this lush verbal growth, doubt comes creeping toward the reader. What Pifer is up to is no mere suspense story. Somewhat in the manner of Richard Condon, he intends a demolishing burlesque of the big-buck sector of U.S. society. Some of his touches are good. He knows, for instance, the precise frequencies at which high-salaried underlings twitch in the presence of heavy money. He can show two flacks of opposed allegiance snicking at each other with unsheathed falsehoods, and trace the exact grimace of the loser...
...that even if Congress could be persuaded to change the necessary laws-a big if-his second-income plan would merely be a substitute for today's Government redistribution of wealth through taxes, welfare, giveaways and make-work programs. Another difficulty is that Kelso concentrates on the manufacturing sector of the economy, noting that greater capital investment would lead to more productivity. But he tends to play down the rising importance of the economy's service sector, in which productivity growth is slow and cannot be rapidly expanded by capital investments...
Launched with much fanfare 18 months ago, the combined Government-business drive to hire hard-core unemployed-particularly blacks-is becoming a casualty of the economic slump. The so-called JOBS program (for Job Opportunities in the Business Sector), which was organized by the Department of Labor and by the National Alliance of Businessmen, provides federal training grants averaging $2,400 per man to companies that agree to employ and train the unskilled. A Senate Labor subcommittee has turned up evidence to prove that, while the Government aimed at enrolling 140,000 men and women in the program during...
...policemen, there'd be no need for dogs," said another. For their part, the two attending policemen took the lambasting fairly calmly, admitting that there was a "100 percent breakdown in communications between police and segments of the community"-meaning the blacks. Discrimination was charged in virtually every sector of civic life...
...private sector has never done a job in the public interest unless it secured adequate subsidy, insurance's against loss, and so on. The federal government must do this. We wouldn't have an airplane industry in this country today if the federal government hadn't subsidized it. We wouldn't have had a space program without the federal government. We couldn't have a highway program without the federal government...