{"id":2143,"date":"2021-02-19T11:07:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2021-02-19T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:07:56","slug":"chickens-coming-home-to-roost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/2021\/02\/19\/chickens-coming-home-to-roost\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickens Coming Home to Roost?"},"content":{"rendered":"

REAGAN ADMINISTRATION, TEXAS ELECTRICITY GRID DISASTER, PARTNERSHIPS (HISTORY) TEXAS GRID DISASTER <\/strong>(public\/private partnerships under Reagan)<\/p>\n

My book: the deliberate dumbing down of america, 1999 (boycotted)<\/p>\n

AN ARTICLE ENTITLED \u201cINDUSTRIAL POLICY URGED FOR GOP\u201d WAS PUBLISHED IN THE Washington Post on May 14, 1984<\/strong>. Excerpts follow: <\/p>\n

SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)\u2014 A conservative study group founded by supporters of President Reagan is about to issue a report that advocates Republicans shed some of their deep-rooted antipathy to a planned economy.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

An industrial policy accepted by both political parties and by business and labor is essential to revitalize America\u2019s dwindling clout in the world economy, according to the study\u2019s editor, Professor Chalmers Johnson of the University of California. \u201cThe Industrial Policy Debate\u201d is to be issued today by the Institute for Contemporary Studies, a think-tank founded by presidential counselor Edwin Meese, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and other Reagan supporters<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we are really trying to pose is a serious debate that has become stupidly politicized by both parties,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe are trying to get the question of an industrial policy for the United States to be taken seriously by people who don\u2019t really believe in it\u2014above all Republicans. Americans must come to grips with economic policy or go the way of England. We have probably got a decade before it becomes irreversible.\u201d In the United States, he said, \u201cThe whole topic we are trying to address is so caught up with politics and the particular positions of industries that it is very hard to disentangle what we mean by economic policy.\u201d While the Democrats are \u201cplanning to throw money at the northern Midwest \u2018rust\u2019 belt\u201d to get votes, Johnson said many Republicans \u201care painting themselves into a corner by attacking the very concept of industrial policy\u2014 arguing that it violates the sacred principles of private enterprise and free trade.<\/strong>\u201d He cited as a valid and successful national economic policy \u201cthe kind of government business relationship\u201d that has made Japan a leading economic force in the world. \u201cA government- business relationship is needed in a competitive capitalist economy,\u201d he said. \u201cReaganomics without an accompanying industrial policy to guide it, has been costly,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

My book: the deliberate dumbing down of america, (boycotted)<\/p>\n

EARLY IN 1981 THE PRESIDENT\u2019S TASK FORCE ON PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVES WAS INstalled at 734 Jackson Place, N.W., Washington, D.C.<\/strong> Membership listed on The White House letterhead read like a \u201cWho\u2019s Who\u201d of individuals in government agencies, universities, tax-exempt foundations,non-governmental organizations, business, media, labor unions, and religion. The names of some individuals on the task force follow: William Aramony, president, United Way; William J. Baroody, Jr., president, American Enterprise Institute; Helen G. Boosalis, mayor, City of Lincoln, Nebraska; Terence Cardinal Cooke, archbishop of New York; Governor Pierre S. Dupont, Delaware; Senator David Durenberger; Luis A. Ferre, former governor of Puerto Rico; John Gardner, chairman, Independent Sector; Edward Hill, pastor, Mt. Zion Baptist Church; Michael S. Joyce, executive director, John M. Olin Foundation; Edward H. Kiernan, president, International Association of Police; Arthur Levitt, Jr., chairman, American Stock Exchange; Richard W. Lyman, president, Rockefeller Foundation; Elder Thomas S. Monson, The Mormon Church; William C. Norris, chairman and CEO, Control Data Corporation; George Romney, chairman, National Center for Citizen Involvement; C. William Verity, Jr., chairman, Armco Steel, Inc.; Jeri J. Winger, first vice president, General Federation of Women\u2019s Clubs; Thomas H. Wyman, president, CBS, Inc.; and William S. White, president, C.S. Mott Foundation.5<\/p>\n

This totally new and un-American concept of partnerships between public and private sector has been readily accepted by our elected officials who ignore its roots in socialism and its implications for the discontinuation of our representative form of government and accountability to the taxpayers. Under the \u201cpartnership\u201d process, determining responsibility when something goes wrong is like pinning jello to the wall. Such a change in government, if presented in clear language to citizens at the polls, would be rejected. However, when implemented gradually, using the Marxist-Hegelian Dialectic, citizens don\u2019t even notice what is happening. The shift is away from elected representatives. In time, after voters have become even more disenchanted with the candidates and election results, fewer and fewer citizens will vote. At that point a highly-respected member of the public will enter the picture to propose a solution to the problem: some sort of compromise toward parliamentary form of government found in socialist democracies which will be acceptable to Americans unfamiliar with the protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. One says to oneself, confidently, \u201cThis will never happen.\u201d Look around you. What do you see? Site-based management in your local schools, transferring decision-making, traditionally exercised by elected school boards, to politically correct appointees and the creation of unelected task forces at all government levels; proposals to \u201cseparate school and state\u201d which make no mention of governmental and social structure consequences\u2014efforts to have government money (taxes) pay for services delivered by private religious or homeschools, etc., with no public representation. There can be no accountability to the taxpayers under a system so alien to the United States\u2019 form of representative government. How clean, neat and tidy. Wholesale destruction of an entire, wonderful system of government without firing a shot. <\/p>\n

As a U.S. Department of Education liaison with The White House during the early days of this initiative this writer inquired of one of President Reagan\u2019s political appointees whether this initiative, was not corporate fascism; a politically incorrect question that resulted in someone else replacing me as Liaison with The White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

REAGAN ADMINISTRATION, TEXAS ELECTRICITY GRID DISASTER, PARTNERSHIPS (HISTORY) TEXAS GRID DISASTER (public\/private partnerships under Reagan) My book: the deliberate dumbing down of america, 1999 (boycotted) AN ARTICLE ENTITLED \u201cINDUSTRIAL POLICY URGED FOR GOP\u201d WAS PUBLISHED IN THE Washington Post on May 14, 1984. Excerpts follow: SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)\u2014 A conservative study group founded by supporters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}