Positive features of U.S. policy

[Hinrich Kuhls]

The final paragraph in the "Statement to German Colleagues" on the economic
policy of the Schroeder government - issued by 81 US economists  and
published by the Preamble Center Sept 29, 1999 - reads:

"In this country [i.e. the U.S.], there is increasing recognition of the
vital role of government to support low-income working people, to support
the elderly through a strong Social Security system, to provide critical
infrastructure, to support education at all levels, to expand access to
first-quality health care, and to properly regulate the financial sector.
Germany should look to these positive features of U.S. policy, and not to
our most destructive recent phase."

May I add two questions to list members inside the U.S - especially to
those who signed the statement: 

1) Who increasingly recognizes the vital role of government to support
different forms of the social security system by expanding public
expenditure? The Clinton Administration?  - And what's about proper
regulations of the financial sector?

2) What are - in concrete terms - the results of "these positive features
of U.S. policy"  which should give governments and economists outside the
U.S. directions?

HK