Our Culture of Pandering by Paul Simon

Our Culture of Pandering by Paul Simon

By Paul Simon

As we increase our perspectives, include our transformations, foster developments in technology and expertise, and collaboratively increase the political, social, and academic underpinnings from which we construct knowledgeable and efficient lives, we've a lot to be pleased with as a state and as a people.

 

But we're tempted—particularly during periods of political unrest and unbridled patriotism—to forget about the far-reaching repercussions of a society that caters to funds and tool. In Our tradition of Pandering, former U.S. Senator Paul Simon interrogates the arenas of politics, media, faith, and schooling to decry the nerve-racking practices that confuse public provider with profit-making ventures or acceptance contests, that compromise the simplest pursuits of the wider inhabitants to soothe a robust few. Boldly and eloquently contributing to a cumulative realizing of the way we will be able to construct a sturdier, extra moral origin for the longer term, Simon indicates proactive, long term suggestions to the issues that threaten our country’s ethical, monetary, and highbrow well-being—problems which are more and more exacerbated by way of our tradition of pandering. 

 

Lest we develop complacent and our country static, Simon urges us to call for extra from the political applicants who chase buck indicators and cater to polls, to elevate our expectancies of neighborhood and nationwide media retailers that recycle gossip and peddle scandals whereas overseas coverage and foreign information obtain back-page therapy or no remedy in any respect. He asks us to think about the results of church buildings that spend more cash home improvement their constructions than supporting these in desire inside of their very own groups and in the course of the global, and he presses us to recognize the astonishing, long term effects of faculties that drop their educational criteria to maintain their reputations and keep funding.

 

Our tradition of Pandering is a stalwart and earnest name to motion from a steadfast and relied on suggest of innovative public coverage. Leavened with altruism and wealthy with compassion for electorate of the USA and past, current and destiny, this significant and cautioning treatise advocates real management within the geographical regions of politics, media, faith, and schooling. In his trademark lucid and synoptic sort, Simon vitamins up to date examples of pandering in our society from a breadth of assets with statement and interpretive knowledge garnered from a life of public service.

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They suggest that $40 billion be used to match 1 percent of the first dollars of a worker’s income for investment purposes. For example, if 1 percent of the first $20,000 made by anyone earning $50,000 a year or less were matched by the federal government, that would make up to $400 a year that could be invested or put into a savings account. It could not be withdrawn—or the stocks sold for cash—until the worker reached the age of sixty-two, although the assets could be passed to his or her heirs if the person died before that time.

Another area we have ignored is our treatment of those with mental illness, something that also impacts the number we house in our prisons. The fifty states saw that keeping 600,000 people in state mental hospitals restricted many who could, with assistance, live a fairly normal life on the outside, and it wasted money. So the states reduced the number in state mental institutions from 600,000 to 50,000, on the theory that community mental health S 32 s S Pandering in Politics s services would be available.

How do people such as the attorney general and House and Senate members handle this? Because of the publicity, I am confident there will be no lack of proper attention to Enron’s problems. But Enron was seventy-sixth among the large corporations in its donations. What about the others whose activities have not made the national news? It is fair to say they are treated well. They will receive a good return on their investments. S 42 s S Pandering in Politics s In one of my last days of Senate service in 1996, we had a good (or, more accurately, bad) illustration of how the system works.

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