We Can All Do Better (25 page)

Childcare,
85
,
87

Chile,
112

China

as ally,
128

and currency,
27
,
28
,
29
,
126

and defense,
121–122

and economic competition with United States,
121
,
122

and economic power of,
121
,
126
,
127
,
131

economy of,
24
,
28
,
121
,
122
,
123
,
125
,
126

and espionage,
129–130

and euro bailout,
126

and global economy,
126

and high-speed rail,
122–123
,
125

and international rules,
128–129

investment in the United States,
82–83

and joint ventures and foreign companies,
125

and lawlessness and corruption,
128

and long-term economic aspirations,
124–127

and manufacturing,
81–83

and minorities,
119

and natural resources,
122
,
123
,
124
,
127

rise of,
5

and stimulus,
18
,
125

strategic thinking of,
122–129

and Taiwan,
122
,
130

talent pool in,
117

and Tibet,
129

and transportation routes and ports for trade,
123–124

and U.S. debt,
27–28

and U.S. decline,
155

and U.S. economic growth,
28–29

and U.S. foreign interventions,
115

and U.S. pressure on,
128–131

and water and energy,
123
,
125

and Wilson,
109
,
110

and workers,
19
,
79
,
124–125

CIA,
101
,
104
,
112

Citigroup,
57–58

Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission
,
49–51
,
60

Civil War,
xii
,
8
,
92
,
136

Civilian Conservation Corps,
24–25
,
95

Clay, Henry,
106–107

Clean-air legislation,
13

Climate change,
128
,
157

Clinton, Bill,
13
,
57
,
99–100
,
113
,
144
,
147

Clinton, Hillary,
14
,
148

Cold War,
13
,
40
,
41
,
112
,
116
,
122
,
132

Collateral damage,
115

Colombia,
123

Compromise,
14
,
34
,
36
,
41
,
50
,
99
,
139
,
141
,
142
,
143

Congress

and appropriations,
36–37

approval ratings and disgust with,
12
,
151

and campaign finance,
49
,
51
,
60
,
61
,
156

and China,
129
,
130

and collegiality,
139–141
,
142

and corruption in U.S. history,
136–137

and derivatives,
56

and districts,
142
,
156

and economic crisis,
44

and economy,
18

and foreign policy,
108
,
110

and Glass–Steagall,
54

and government reporting requirements, oversight, and reform,
103
,
104

and Great Depression,
94
,
95

and indirect and direct election,
136–138
,
151

and later employment as lobbyists,
156

millionaires in,
49

and Nixon,
97

and party duopoly,
146

and presidential appointments,
52

and Social Security,
35

and taxes,
18

and third party,
152–153

and 2014 elections,
151
,
152

and 2010 elections,
159

Constitution, U.S.,
49
,
51
,
96
,
116
,
135
,
141–142
,
153

Cook, Tim,
20

Corporations and companies

assets of,
23

and campaign finance,
49
,
51
,
60–62

and Chinese espionage,
129

and crisis management,
4–5

and financial reform,
60

and health care,
87–88
,
158

and innovation,
7

and international trade,
24

and lobbying,
54

and manufacturing,
80–84

and new technologies,
83

and pensions,
79

reducing costs of,
87–89

and short term,
2

and taxes,
32
,
37
,
39
,
87
,
88–89

and turnarounds,
30

and unselfishness, team play, and ethics,
72–74

and vocational education,
84–85
,
158

and workers and jobs,
4
,
21–22
,
23–24
,
39
,
72–74
,
79–80

Corzine, Jon,
47

Council of Europe,
114

Courts,
33

Credit,
19
,
20
,
24
,
58
,
59
,
60
,
78
,
90
,
94

Credit cards,
33
,
60

Cuba,
112

Culture,
2
,
3
,
119
,
155

Currency

and American Revolution,
43

and dollar,
6
,
27
,
28
,
29
,
30

and Great Depression,
94

and other countries,
19
,
27
,
28
,
29
,
30

and U.S. debt,
27
,
28

wars,
19

Cyberwar,
132

The Cycles of American History
(Schlesinger),
105

Daley, Richard M.,
117

Danforth, Jack,
40

Debs, Eugene V.,
147

Debt (federal),
2

financing,
27–30

and historical lessons,
41–44

and interest,
31
,
32

limit,
36
,
159

and major banking crises,
20

and taxes,
25

Debt (personal),
20
,
21
,
23
,
33
,
77

Declaration of Independence,
108

Deepwater Horizon,
61

Defense industry,
4
,
47

Defense spending,
32
,
40
,
41
,
98
,
121–122
,
132
,
133

Deficit,
90

and China,
28

cyclical,
17
,
31

financing,
29

and interest rates,
31

and investors,
141

long-term structural,
17
,
31
,
156

and mortgage refinancing,
23

projections,
30–31

and Reagan,
99

and taxes,
17
,
18
,
31
,
37

and 2012 election,
160

and unemployment,
21–22

and Washington money culture,
47

Deficit reduction,
156

and budget balancing exercise of former U.S. senators,
40–41

and Clinton,
99

and costs on businesses,
87

and entitlement programs,
32

and George H. W. Bush,
13

and Grand Bargain,
44

and interest rates,
31

and taxes,
30
,
32
,
38–39

and Washington club's smugness,
14

Democracy,
21
,
96
,
133

and Americans Elect,
151

and campaign finance,
50
,
60–62

and citizen responsibility and action,
xi
,
xii
,
1
,
158–159
,
161

and compromise,
142

and Congress,
151

and debt,
41–42

defined,
116

and ethics of caring and personal responsibility,
145

indirect and direct,
136–138

and leadership,
8

and narrow interests,
51–52

need for more,
146

and Obama speech,
10
,
11

parliamentary,
152

pluralistic,
116
,
133

and problems in U.S. history,
135
,
136
,
138

remaking,
8

as sacred mystery,
ix
,
109

and skepticism,
141
,
142

and standoffs,
xii

and U.S. foreign interventions,
113
,
114
,
115
,
126
,
127
,
133

and World War I,
110

See also
Wilson, Woodrow: and democracy

Democratic Leadership Council,
99

Democratic Party,
x

and charismatic leaders,
144

and Clinton and Democratic Leadership Council,
99
,
100

and congressional districts,
142

and economic crisis,
34

and ethic of caring,
145

and policy language,
144

and self-identification,
143

and third parties,
146

Deng Xiaoping,
126–127
,
131

Denmark,
39

Derivatives,
56–57

Dirksen, Everett,
139
,
141

Disabilities,
13
,
66–67
,
89

Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010,
59

Downes, Lawrence,
11

Drayton, Bill,
73
,
89

Economic crisis,
xii
,
17–45

Economic insecurity,
76–80

Economy (U.S.),
x
,
xii
,
xiii
,
161

and company turnaround analogy,
30