Positive features of U.S. policy

Hinrich Kuhls kls at mail.online-club.de
Tue Oct 19 11:06:12 PDT 1999


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



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