Chi tiêu cho giáo dục đã tăng vọt, nhưng theo thoả thuận chung chất lượng giáo dục đã được giảm xuống. Khoản tiền gia tăng và kiểm soát ngày càng cứng nhắc đã được đối với chúng tôi để thúc đẩy hội nhập chủng tộc, nhưng xã hội của chúng ta dường như trở nên bị phân mảnh hơn. | Cradle to Grave 127 Spending on education has been skyrocketing yet by common consent the quality of education has been declining. Increasing sums and increasingly rigid controls have been imposed on us to promote racial integration yet our society seems to be becoming more fragmented. Billions of dollars are being spent each year on welfare yet at a time when the average standard of life ofthe American citizen is higher than it has ever been in history the welfare rolls are growing. The Social Security budget is colossal yet Social Security is in deep financial trouble. The young complain and with much justice about the high taxes they must pay taxes thatare needed to finance the benefits going to the old. Yet the old complain. and with much justice that they cannot maintain the standard of living that they were led to expect. A program that was enacted to make sure that our older folks never becameobjects of charity has seen the number of old persons on welfare rolls grow. By its own accounting in one year HEW lost through fraud abuse and waste an amount of money that would have sufficed to build well over 100 000 houses costing more than 50 000 each. The waste is distressing but it is the least of the evils ofthe paternalistic programs that have grown to such massive size. Their major evil is their effect on the fabric ofoursociety. They weaken the family reduce the incentive to work save and innovate reduce the accumulation of capital and limit our freedom. These are the fundamental standards by which they should be judged. CHAPTER 5 Created Equal Equality liberty what precisely do these words from the Declaration of Independence mean Can the ideals they express be realized in practice Are equality and liberty consistent one with the other or are they in conflict Since well before the Declaration of Independence theseques-tions have played a central role in the history of the UnitedStates. The attempt to answer them has shaped the intellectual climate of .
