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.
According to Mickey Kaus, which of the following is NOT true?
A.Methods like evading income tax or providing more chances for job training might help reduce the existing inequality.
B.The Democratic Party is spreading propaganda that they could regain the lost paradise.
C.Americans once had a period of time when they could obtain middle-class status easily.
D.Income inequality results from the fact that society needs more and more workers who have a high skill and a good education.
第2题
生物安全柜内的空气需经HEPA过滤器过滤后再排放到大气中,其主要目的是
A、保护试验样品
B、保护工作人员
C、保护环境
D、保护试验样品和环境
E、保护工作人员和试验样品
第3题
外界空气需经高效空气过滤器过滤后才进入安全柜内,其主要目的是
A、保护试验样品
B、保护工作人员
C、保护环境
D、保护试验样品和环境
E、保护工作人员和试验样品
第5题
生物安全柜的作用是
A.保护环境和样品
B.保护操作者、环境和样品
C.保护操作者
D.保护环境
E.保护样品
第8题
关于一级生物安全柜的叙述,正确的是()。
A、可保护样品和工作人员
B、可保护工作人员和环境而不保护样品
C、排气口不使用HEPA过滤器
D、本身带有风机
E、可保护样品和环境
第9题
下列有关Ⅰ级生物安全柜功能特点的叙述中,正确的是
A、用于保护操作人员与样品安全、而不保护环境安全
B、用于保护操作人员与环境安全、而不保护样品安全
C、用于保护操作人员安全、而不保护样品与环境安全
D、用于保护样品与环境安全、而不保护操作人员安全
E、用于保护样品安全、而不保护操作人员与环境安全
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