Summary Of The Great Austerity War By James Crotty

In James Crotty’s piece, “The Great Austerity War: What Caused the U.S. Deficit Crisis and Who Should Pay to Fix It?” speaks on the effects of the post-war period pertaining to the deficit in the United States, inequality and income by stating; “the deficit is the result of a shift from the New-Deal based economic model of the early post-war period to today’s neo-liberal, free-market model.” And this new “free-market model” is what’s been the cause of “slow growth, rising inequality and rising deficits”. So, as time has continued to pass the inequalities that had once been quelled after the Great Depression and the enactment of the New Deal and the time period between the New Deal and the 1970s, which saw one of the most balanced in terms of income across all
Groups and organizations have started to increase and it is because of changes in government policy. It’s important because of people in political party’s i.e. conservative groups to Obamacare, NAACP did it with Brown v. Board of Education. Individuals who are in groups tend to participate more and makes up for the inequalities. With certain religious groups and more specifically with mainline protestant denominations: Baptists, Methodist, Presbyterian; membership has continued to decline. Suzanne Mettler and Joe Soss in “The Consequences of Public Policy for Democratic Citizenship: Bridging Policy Studies and Mass Politics”, state that policies influence politics on a large scale. The influence public policy has on citizens and how that also has an affect on their lives. Crotty also goes on about the affects of the post-war era and Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and how these programs expanded as well as the power of Unions. Unions were once one of the most important groups and had power over not only government policy but also the economy, the rich and