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How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics
Knopf
January 2012
On Sale: January 10, 2012
272 pages
ISBN: 0385535198
EAN: 9780385535199
Kindle: B0050DIX2E
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Non-Fiction
One of our most prescient political observers provides a
sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce
resources will increasingly define American politics in the
coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate,
the damage from these ideological and economic
battles.
In a matter of just three years, a
bitter struggle over limited resources has enveloped
political discourse at every level in the United States.
Fights between haves and have-nots over health care,
unemployment benefits, funding for mortgage write-downs,
economic stimulus legislation—and, at the local level, over
cuts in police protection, garbage collection, and in the
number of teachers—have dominated the debate. Elected
officials are being forced to make zero-sum choices—or
worse, choices with no winners.
Resource
competition between Democrats and Republicans has left each
side determined to protect what it has at the expense of the
other. The major issues of the next few years—long-term
deficit reduction; entitlement reform, notably of Social
Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; major cuts in defense
spending; and difficulty in financing a continuation of
American international involvement—suggest that
your-gain-is-my-loss politics will inevitably intensify.
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