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Setting Domestic Priorities
Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--A NEW AGENDA FOR THE NEW PRESIDENT
Author: Mark Blitz
Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 1/1/2001
Size: 2,122 Words, 15,315 Characters

Both Governor Bush and President Clinton have talked at length about the place of responsibility and the need to enhance it. Responsibility is hardly enhanced, however, by massive and complex government, with involved, intrusive and detailed regulations that are difficult to understand or obey. To be responsible is to have and develop the foresight, discipline, energy, and intention to accomplish one's own tasks, now and in the future. vbcrlf        Presidential elections are useful opportunities to consider and reconsider our main domestic directions and concerns and the size and scope of government that might best deal with them. The recent campaign was no exception. It brought to the fore a series of choices we must face programmatically and fin...

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...ght enhance the practice of responsible individual freedom in several ways. These range from forceful prosecution of crime and powerful, well-articulated defense of the American way of life to attention to the pace and meaning of our current technological revolutions. On the whole, however, sensible reduction in intrusive government will serve the development of individual responsibility. vbcrlf

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