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BL
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1033688
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b788058
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Jansson, Bruce S.
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| Title & Author
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The sixteen-trillion-dollar mistake : : how the U.S. bungled its national priorities from the New Deal to the present /\ Bruce S. Jansson.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, ©2001.
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1 online resource (xi, 492 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0231505264
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: 9780231505260
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023111432X
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0231114338
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-464) and index.
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| Contents
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Failed national priorities from FDR to Clinton -- Roosevelt as magician -- Roosevelt's dilemma -- The conservatives' revenge -- Truman's nightmare -- Truman's bombshells -- Eisenhower's ambivalence and Kennedy's obsession -- Johnson's policy gluttony -- Nixon's megalomania -- Reagan's fantasies -- Reagan's gordian knot -- Bush's myopia -- Clinton as backpedaler and counterpuncher -- Clinton boxes with Reagan's shadow -- On the magnitude of failed national priorities (Bruce S. Jansson and Sara-Jane Dodd).
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| Abstract
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"This book is the first analysis of American national priorities to link social policy, military policy, tax policy, and national politics in a far-reaching critique of the way the United States expends its national resources. By chronicling the failed priorities of eleven presidencies over a seventy-three year period (1931-2004), Jansson meticulously examines how each administration struggled to prioritize its share of the $56 trillion spent over that time. However, presidents only propose budgets, while Congress actually crafts budget and tax legislation. Jansson's research analyzes many of the problems created by this usually contentious relationship between the president and Congress: exorbitant military expenditures, corporate welfare, tax breaks for affluent Americans, interest payments on excessive debt, and pork-barrel spending. In identifying $16 trillion the United States wasted during the past seven decades, The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake points the way for greater citizen surveillance of the federal budget and affords average citizens a stronger voice in determining national priorities."--Jacket.
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Government spending policy-- United States.
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Human services-- United States-- Finance.
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Dépenses publiques-- Politique gouvernementale-- États-Unis.
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Services sociaux-- États-Unis-- Finances.
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Expenditures, Public.
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Government spending policy.
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Human services-- Finance.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services Welfare.
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Politics and government
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Human Services.
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United States, Appropriations and expenditures.
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United States, Politics and government, 20th century.
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États-Unis, Crédits budgétaires et dépenses.
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États-Unis, Politique et gouvernement, 20e siècle.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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361.973
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| LC Classification
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HV95.J355 2001eb
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