HW4.6

LUMP- SUM PAYMENTS, STOPPING INFLATION, CUTTING TAXES SHOWS THAT REAGON'S POLICIES FIT HIS 'BRAND' OF CONSERVATISM AS HE DESCRIBED IT IN HIS INAUGURAL SPEECH, JANUARY 1981.

Lump-sum payments showed that Reagan's policies fit his brand of conservatism. Ronald Reagan instituted a system call block grants. This system allowed the states to receive lump-sum payments and to us it as they wish in paying for social programs (History Alive!). "It gave the states flexibility to "allocate resources to suit their needs"(History Alive!). Reagan "went a step further by handing responsibility for many programs in health, education, and welfare to the states themselves." (History Alive!) Therefore, unnecessary social spending was cut and taxes were lowered for upper and middle class.

üBy lowering taxes, Reagan also stopped inflation during his presidency which fits his brand of conservatism. Even though at the beginning of his years, 1981 to 1982, economy dipped deeper into recession. However, with Reagan's encouragement Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker restricted the money supply. In his State of the Union messages it said "When celebrating triumphs—whether over inflation, interest rates, unemployment, or communism—Reagan used “we” or “together.” " (Schweikart) Reagan succeeded, the inflation rate dropped from 12 percent to 4 percent in only a few years (Schweikart).

Moreover, Reagan's economic plan of cutting taxes was another promise he kept. In August 1981, Reagan signed a bill that cut federal taxes by 25 percent over a three-year period (History Alive!). Before he was voted for persident, Reagan ran on three simple promises, and one of them is " he would revive the economy through tax cuts and deregulation, cutting the size of government" and again he kept his promise. " (Schweikart)The Economic Recovery Act helped America's economy rapidly, "Lower capital gains rates caused investors to pump money into the economy as never before" (Schweikart). Moreover it allowed the economy to trickle down and "the gross national product grew by 7.1 percent...The recovery created 18.4 million new jobs" (History Alive!).

HW4.5

LUMP- SUM PAYMENTS, STOPPING INFLATION, CUTTING TAXES SHOWS THAT REAGON'S POLICIES FIT HIS 'BRAND' OF CONSERVATISM AS HE DESCRIBED IT IN HIS INAUGURAL SPEECH, JANUARY 1981.

Lump-sum payments showed that Reagan's policies fit his brand of conservatism. Ronald Reagan instituted a system call block grants. This system allowed the states to receive lump-sum payments and to us it as they wish in paying for social programs (History Alive!). It gave the states flexibility to "allocate resources to suit their needs"(History Alive!). Therefore, unnecessary social spending was cut and taxes were lowered for upper and middle class.

By lowering taxes, Reagan also stopped inflation during his presidency which fits his brand of conservatism. Even though at the beginning of his years, 1981 to 1982, economy dipped deeper into recession (Schweikart). However, with Reagan's encouragement Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker restricted the money supply. It succeeded, the inflation rate dropped from 12 percent to 4 percent in only a few years (Schweikart).

Reagan's economic plan of cutting taxes also reflect to his brand of conservatism. In August 1981, Reagan signed a bill that cut federal taxes by 25 percent over a three-year period (History Alive!). The Economic Recovery Act helped America's economy rapidly, "Lower capital gains rates caused investors to pump money into the economy as never before" (Schweikart). Moreover it allowed the economy to trickle down and "the gross national product grew by 7.1 percent...The recovery created 18.4 million new jobs" (History Alive!).

HW4.4

FEMINIST, CONSERVATIVES, AND MEN WHO SUPPORT NO-FAULT DIVORCE ARE TO BLAME FOR AMERICAN TREND TOWARDS HIGH DIVORCE RATES STARTING IN THE 1970S.

Feminist should be blame for America's trend toward high divorce rates, starting in the 1970s because they are eager for changes. Women began to bring in ideas such as "Women doing housework were people outside the modern economic system, therefore they were like serfs or peasants." (Zinn) which encouraged themselves to pursue for jobs and not live "through her husband, through her children," (Zinn). This caused laws like no-faults divorce to form and increase the divorce rate in America.

Conservatives should also be blamed because they wanted society to stay the same, which means man have a higher stand than woman. For example, man was expected to work, and woman was always expected to " made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slip-cover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies" (Zinn) this was a stereo-type that the society created together, therefore it leads to woman wanting "change" which drives the divorce rates.

On the other hand, men who supported the no-fault divorce should also be blame for America's trend towards high divorce rate because by supporting they made divorce easy. Man started the "Jennifer fever". This means that old man were panicking with their middle age crisis, they started to find their wife no longer fulfilling, and desires younger woman. As stated in Schweikart's writing, younger women "they now became prey for the middle-aged wealthy men with "Jennifer Fever."...younger men may have seemed to sociologists to be a logical match, but in fact the two groups were biologically and culturally incompatible." This drives the divorce rate and leaving the society with marriage gap in the late 20th century.

Popular TV shows from the 1970s show that feminists were living in a society that was already changing and did not need changes in divorce law. For example in All In The Family, the daughter of a working class man says " No daddy I'm the one that is applying for a job...A job! you just said yourself how though it is to make ends meet." In the younger generation, society is already changing. Young women are starting to apply for jobs. Therefore, enforcing laws like no-fault divorce to gain women rights was not needed.

Mr. Hilly, I know!!! I was listening in classs, I was suppose to publish this as 4.4 instead of the previous post. I did that on 5/3, and I was going to fix it today by publishing this. Sorry for the confusion!

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Popular TV shows from the 1970s show that feminists were living in a society that was already changing and did not need changes in divorce law. For example in All In The Family, the daughter of a working class man says " No daddy I'm the one that is applying for a job...A job! you just said yourself how though it is to make ends meet." In the younger generation, society is already changing. Young women are starting to apply for jobs. Therefore, enforcing laws like no-fault divorce to gain women rights was not needed.

HW4.3

FEMINIST, CONSERVATIVES, AND MEN WHO SUPPORT NO-FAULT DIVORCE ARE TO BLAME FOR AMERICAN TREND TOWARDS HIGH DIVORCE RATES STARTING IN THE 1970S.

Feminist should be blame for America's trend toward high divorce rates, starting in the 1970s because they are eager for changes. Women began to bring in ideas such as "Women doing housework were people outside the modern economic system, therefore they were like serfs or peasants." which encourage themselves to pursue freedom and rights. This causes law like no-faults divorce to form.

Conservatives should also be blamed because they created the stereo-type in society. For example, man was expected to work, and woman was always expected to " made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slip-cover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies" this was a stereo-type that the society created together, therefore it leads to woman wanting "change" which drives the divorce rates.

On the other hand, men who supported the no-fault divorce should also be blame for America's trend towards high divorce rate because by supporting they made divorce easy. Man started the "Jennifer fever". This means that old man were panicking with their middle age crisis, they started to find their wife no longer fulfilling, and desires younger woman. This drives the divorce rate and leaving the society with marriage gap in the late 20th century.