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COMMENTARY: The media needs to provide more honest depictions of the dysfunction that many families experience. See Kansan.com for more opinions and Free for All comments
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2007
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OPINION
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》 OUR VIEW
America needs more wealth equality
Fear-monger, thy name is neopopulist.
Several 2008 Democratic candidates, campaigning vigorously at this absurdly early hour, have made a point of late of vilifying the growing wealth and earnings gap in this country. They shake their fists in conversations with Iowa farmers, heads shaking with affected empathy, lamenting the supposed decline of the American middle class and excoriating the Exxon executives whose high pay packages are allegedly responsible for the farmers' woes.
Senator John Edwards, taking a break from basking in the glow of his own healthy bank account, is chief among these offenders. He of the coruscating smile and genteel accent travels the back roads of early primary states, telling middle class workers that the elites are to blame for their problems. The rich are getting richer, the storyline goes, while most of America gets left behind. The candidates sound the alarms of protectionism and regulation and peal the bells of alarmism and fear, in an effort to convince the rural voter that a renewed class struggle is the only option.
But the myths of neopopulism are largely limited in scope, and are mostly designed to ignite voters' passions in primary season. The median income of American households headed by people in their key working years is more than $60,000, and rises to $72,000 for married couples in such households. Middle class Americans are living incredibly wealthy, healthy and safe lives by the standards of history and current global society. Television and telephone penetration are near 100 percent, and household assets are rising faster than debts. But somehow, we are expected to believe that a cut in a CEO's paycheck will lead to great windfalls for America's middle class.
Neopopulism is not just poor policy, it is also bad electoral strategy. Candidates can spend months painting a picture of an egalitarian lotusland, a place where wealth inequality is a distant memory, but voters will always take a self-interested view of the future. We are consistently reluctant to impose penalties on the rich because we like to think that somehow, someday, we will join those ranks, and candidates must adjust to this selfish reality.
America has wealth equality problems. The exponential growth rate of executive pay compared to average worker pay is worrisome, and should be addressed in the future. But throwing up protectionist trade barriers and imposing windfall taxes and income regulation is not the answer. Voters should remember that the real solutions are found in broader education, modern job training and expanded opportunities for all.
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year is greater than the number who will have a heart attack, be diagnosed with cancer or graduate from college." Take all the women, all over the country graduating from college in 2007, put them together and there are still more women who will become legally broke this year. All of us are at risk for such problems.
year is greater than the number who will have a heart attack, be diagnosed with cancer or graduate from college." Take all the women, all over the country graduating from college in 2007, put them together and there are still more women who will become legally broke this year. All of us are at risk for such problems.
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year is greater than the number who will have a heart attack, be diagnosed with cancer or graduate from college." Take all the women, all over the country graduating from college in 2007, put them together and there are still more women who will become legally broke this year. All of us are at risk for such problems.
year is greater than the number who will have a heart attack, be diagnosed with cancer or graduate from college." Take all the women, all over the country graduating from college in 2007, put them together and there are still more women who will become legally broke this year. All of us are at risk for such problems.
Grant Snider/KANSAN
COMMENTARY
Dollars and sense: we need money knowledge
Life is complicated for students at the University of Kansas. We have to deal with family, work, friends, relationships and, on top of all, school. However, I'm here to tell you one more thing you need to be worried about; your finances.
This is especially important for all the women on campus. According to Jackie Regales in the article "Banking on Women": "The number of American women who will file for bankruptcy
BY LIZ STUEWE
KANSAN COLUMNIST
OPINION@KANSAN.COM
We need more economic and financial information for all children in our public schools. There are simple things that can be taught to students from kindergarten all the way through college that can help all students — not just women
become savvy with their money.
Why is this? The number of women filing for bankruptcy rises because of many things, including our culture of mass consumption, overuse of credit cards and lack of proper financial education. There is something strikingly wrong when women are "40 percent more likely to be poor than men."
This is a huge problem. Thankfully education is a powerful tool to combat this problem. There
are some easy things we can do to improve our own knowledge of the financial world as KU students. Try reading one of Suze Orman's books such as the bestseller "The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke" or checking out the Web site mymoney.gov, created by the federal government to improve financial literacy.
And we can't focus simply on ourselves. We need to extend our knowledge beyond the University. We need more economic and financial information for all children in our public schools. There are simple things that can be taught to students from kindergarten all the way through college that can help all students — not just women — become savvy with their money. This education must include the reconnection that this is a problem, particularly for women, and involve a solution designed to benefit everyone.
Like most great problems, the solution starts with individual action. Men and women alike should make it a priority to be knowledgeable about money before they start careers.
Stuewe is a Lawrence junior in political science and American studies.
>> IN DEFENSE OF DARK ARTS
Find the love in family dysfunction
I've sociologically validated "Little Miss Sunshine" four Oscar nominations.
The atypical, dysfunctional, eccentric, eectic, rag-tag team of players that make up the fictional Hoover family is no longer atypical or overly fictitious in the American landscape. It represents the reality of a changing family dynamic in this country.
Who doesn't have a despondent, sullen and mute teenage brother; a junior-beauty pageant-participating sister; heroin-addicted grandpa or an ancient, clutch-less punch line of an automobile in his or her family?
Perhaps your grandpa likely suffers more from a Fox News obsession than a heroin addiction, but the former can be just as divisive. There's something in the film that America and the kind folks at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences find appealing, even relatable.
I applaud "Little Miss Sunshine" and the cultural movement that took us away from the age of "Leave It To Beaver" to a time when we can portray our familial shortcomings accurately instead of sweeping them under the rug to the tune of
some unreason-
ably cheery sitcom
theme song —
think "The Andy
Griffith Show"
Using the old standard of domestic perfection as a measure stick for today's family is ineffective. Some of us come from the families of yore, in which the wife wears a frilly apron and has dinner on the table at 5 p.m. There's nothing wrong with that, but it isn't an accurate representation of what typically happens in this country.
I applaud "Little Miss Sunshine" and the cultural movement that took us away from the age of "Leave It To Beaver" to a time when we can portray our familial shortcomings accurately instead of sweeping them under the rug to the tune of some unreasonably cheery sitcom theme song — think "The Andy Griffith Show."
What's more common is bickering, fighting and nagging. People lose jobs and get in trouble at school. Fiscal pressure creates family pressure. Maybe the problem is a lack of communication.
making families doubt they fit any acceptable model worthy of the term. Instead of covering up dysfunction, as a culture, we're learning to effectively
Evolving entertainment have taken some of the pressure off average American families. Movies like "Little Miss Sunshine" show American family dysfunction in all its glory. They show us dysfunction is a norm we shouldn't be
ashamed of. Most importantly, they show us that, despite imperfection, there's still love and a strong family bond. A family is no less a family just because of a few problems, a lack of communication or theoca-
sional argument.
Seeing domestic dysfunction on screen gives confidence to those who struggle with it. Of course, there are many Americans who still fight to present themselves with perfection at the company picnic or neighborhood barbecue. It seems today it's the "perfect" families that stand in the way of progress.
My family isn't perfect, and I see some families that try to be. Maybe we don't communicate as well or as often as some. Maybe we don't get along all the time. Maybe we don't present ourselves to the world with utter perfection, but for us it's better to be who we are than to go through life whistling the Andy Griffith theme and pretending we don't have problems. We're a family and that's most important.
There's no instance of perfection in the American family. Finally the entertainment world is getting the idea. Wed all be better off accepting our drugged-out grandparents than locking them away to become skeletons in our closets.
Ervin is an Overland Park junior in theatre and film and psychology.
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