“The burden is on all of us”
“All of us” . . . let’s see . . . is that the 350 million of us in the United States or, perhaps, the 7.5 billion of us in the world?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/opinion/sunday/working-class-dignity.html
“The nation’s greatest challenge is to restore opportunity and dignity for the bottom third of Americans. Biden is pursuing an ‘American Rescue Plan’ that includes the most serious antipoverty program in at least half a century … [but] the burden is on all of us.”
Once you recognize what the problem is with these kinds of sentiments, the whole scenario becomes kind of sad. Ludicrous, of course, but also sad.
Can “the nation” “restore dignity”?
The nations can and do implement anti-poverty programs . . . one after another. The Sociological Society keeps count. Just among the advanced industrial countries, Biden’s plan will be №2,966 since Otto von Bismarck launched the first one in Germany in 1883.
I understand where Republicans are coming from when they critique the paradigm. But just saying “limit the funding” is not saying much.
Modern society will continue to be baffled and discouraged and chasing its tail until we hear more about the sane and positive alternative:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/892427.Going_Local
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2126392.Building_The_Green_Movement
