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Goal Trimmer Utopias are supposed to be dreams of the future. But the American Utopia? Lately it’s a dream that was, a twilit
Goal Trimmer Utopias are supposed to be dreams of the future. But the American Utopia? Lately it’s a dream that was, a twilit
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Goal Trimmer
Utopias are supposed to be dreams of the future. But the American Utopia? Lately it’s a dream that was, a twilit memory of the Golden Age between V-J day and OPEC, when even a blue-collar paycheck bought a place in the middle class. The promise of paradise regained has become a key to the Democratic Party pitch. Mickey Kaus, a senior editor of the New Republic, says the Democrats are wasting their time. As the U. S. enters a world where only the highly skilled and well educated will make a decent living, the gap between rich and poor is going to keep growing. No fiddling with the tax code, retreat to protectionism or job training for jobs that aren’t there is going to stop it. Income equality is a hopeless cause in the U. S. "Liberalism would be less depressing if it had a more attainable end." Kaus writes," a goal short of money equality." Liberal Democrats should embrace an aim he calls civic equality. If government can’t bring everyone into the middle class, let it expand the areas of life in which everyone, regardless of income, receives the same treatment, National health care, improved public schools, universal national service and government financing of nearly all election campaigns, which would freeze out special-interest money --there are the unobjectionable components of his enlarged public sphere.
Kaus is right to fear the hardening of class lines, but wrong to think the stresses can be relieved without a continuing effort to boost income for the bottom half." No, we can’t tell them they’ll be rich," he admits." Or even comfortably well off. But we can offer them at least a material minimum and a good shot at climbing up the ladder. And we can offer them respect." And what might they offer back? The Bronx had a rude cheer for it. A good chunk of the Democratic core constituency would probably peel off. At the center of Kaus’ book is a thoughtful but no less risky proposal to dynamite welfare. He rightly understands how fear and loathing of the chronically unemployed underclass have encouraged middle income Americans to flee from everyone below them on the class scale. The only way to eliminate welfare dependency, Kaus maintains, is by cutting off checks for all able-bodied recipients, including single mothers with children. He would have government provide them instead with jobs that pay slightly less than the minimum wage, earned-income tax credits to nudge them over the poverty line, drug counseling, job training and, if necessary, day care for their children. Kaus doesn’t sell this as social policy on the cheap. He expects it would cost up to $ 59 billion a year more than the $ 23 billion already spent annually on welfare in the U. S. And he knows it would be politically perilous, because he suggests paying for the plan by raiding Social Security funds and trimming benefits for upper-income retirees. Yet he considers if money well spent it would undo the knot of chronic poverty and help foster class rapprochement. And it would be too. But one advantage of being an author is that you only ask people to listen to you, not to vote for you.
Kaus has realized that _______.
选项
A、real equality cannot be achieved if the poor cannot increase their income
B、his idea will probably meet with disapproval from the supporters of the Democratic Party
C、only the Bronx might cheer for his theory
D、the division of social strata has become increasingly conspicuous
答案
D
解析
排除题。题目问Kaus意识到了怎样的问题。文章第二段第一句话(Kaus is wrong to think the stresses can be relieved without a continuing effort to boost income for the bottom half)表明,Kaus并未意识到穷人收入不增加,阶级对立是不可能消失的。由此排除A。选项B(他的观点可能会遭到民主党支持者的反对)在第二段有提及,但是Kaus并没有意识到。选项C(只有Bronx可能会支持Kaus的理论)与文章内容相反,Bronx是讥笑Kaus的观点。选项D(社会阶层的分裂越来越明显)在文章第一段表述得很清楚,为正确答案。
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