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(i) the jobs they create; and 
(ii) the economic health of communities 
that have become dependent upon the mainte-
nance or expansion of such programs. 
(B) Careful termination of such contracts, with 
appropriate protection for workers, contractors, sub-
contractors, and communities could release resources 
for activities to meet unmet human needs while ad-
vancing the civilian economy. 
(4) 
ENTITLEMENT
CONFUSIONS.—(A)(i) 
Among the recipients of corporate welfare, some in-
dividuals have been enlarging their collective entitle-
ments. 
(ii) This has been done through tax deductions, 
Government guaranteed loans, price supports, mili-
tary contracts and other forms of direct or indirect 
subsidy. 
(B)(i) Other individuals have swelled personal 
entitlements at the expense of taxpayers, share-
holders, employees and local communities. 
(ii) This has been done through unprecedented 
increases in salaries, stock options, deferred com-
pensation, and other luxurious benefits. 
(C) Some beneficiaries of elite entitlements have 
been supporting attacks on the rights and entitle-
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ments of working people, the elderly, racial or ethnic 
minorities, the jobless, the homeless, poor people, the 
disabled, welfare parents, and immigrants. 
(D) Others have been undermining collective 
bargaining rights through anti-union propaganda, 
trade promotion authority, subcontracting to non- 
unionized companies, and plant closings. 
(E) Funds now deposited into the Social Secu-
rity Trust Fund are enormously attractive to those 
who would like to divert the people’s savings from 
secure Government bonds into the risk-laden stock 
and bond markets. 
(5) DEFECTIVE
GROWTH.—(A) Recent eco-
nomic growth has been below the levels needed to 
provide decent employment for a larger and more 
productive population. 
(B) As a result, many individuals have been 
forced into jobs that are underpaid, part-time, tem-
porary, irregular, or lacking in health insurance or 
other social benefits. 
(C) Many face the disappearance of career lad-
ders and an ever-present specter of lay-offs. 
(D) Consumer debt and business bankruptcy 
have been reaching historic levels. 
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(E) These trends have created deeper and 
longer term poverty or insecurity, with the con-
sequent loss of personal dignity and self-respect. 
(F) Among the more obvious symptoms are the 
fostering of mental depression, family breakdown, 
child or spousal abuse, and illegal forms of income. 
(G) Lesser known symptoms have been the in-
crease in the prison population, the exploitation of 
prison labor, the spread of new hate groups, church 
bombings, homophobia, and unregulated armed mili-
tias. 
(H) As a result, an insecurity plague unravels 
the social fabric of United States society. 
(6) MISLEADING
INFORMATION.—(A) While 
most individuals are flooded by information over-
loads, much of the information they receive consists 
of 
oversimplifications, 
misinformation 
or 
disinformation. 
(B) By themselves, aggregate measures of na-
tional output or income neglect their disaggregated 
components, overemphasize monetary data, ignore 
the entire world of unpaid volunteer and household 
elderly and healthcare services and care for children. 
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(C) Their use tends to nurture the misleading 
idea that human progress or regress can be rep-
resented by a single overall measurement. 
(D) Statistical data on employment, unemploy-
ment, prices, education, crime, and health are often 
based on outmoded concepts that have not been 
adapted to changing conditions or new capabilities 
for information collection, processing, and distribu-
tion. 
(E) Many people misuse averages and other 
measures of central tendency without attention to 
frequency distributions and other measures of dis-
persion. The use of a single measure of consumer 
prices and inflation ignores the long-established fact 
that poor individuals pay more. 
(7) LOST LEGACIES.—(A) Few people now re-
member, and many young people never learned, how 
President Franklin D. Roosevelt started planning for 
conversion from war to peace by proclaiming a ‘‘sec-
ond Bill of Rights’’. 
(B) The first principle in this long-forgotten 
document was ‘‘the right to a useful and remunera-
tive job in the industries or shops or farms or mines 
of the Nation’’. 
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