One part of that policy was social restructuring, to redress the balance.
At the same time, economic and social restructuring involving devolved planning responsibilities, privatised resource rights, and networked management approaches have undermined previous scholarly and policy assumptions about the character of rural regions.
During the years 1990 2000, societies have witnessed changes that were unprecedented in recent history: the collapse of political and economic systems, new integration policies, globalization of the economy and the decline of the nation state, mass migration, governmental retrenchment, and social restructuring.
The New Testament's most left-liberal text, the Lord's Prayer — which, it should be pointed out, begins with a call for utopian social restructuring ("Thy will be done, On earth as it is in Heaven"), then welfare relief ("Give us this day our daily bread"), and then income redistribution ("Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors").
The New Testament's most left-liberal text, the Lord's Prayer which, it should be pointed out, begins with a call for utopian social restructuring ("Thy will be done, On earth as it is in Heaven"), then welfare relief ("Give us this day our daily bread"), and then income redistribution ("Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors").
The analysis of the relationship between class and consumption is particularly important in times of radical social restructuring.
Republican strategists argue that in resorting to campaign-style events to take his fiscal message to voters, Mr. Obama is overplaying his hand, much as President George W. Bush did after his re-election when he barnstormed the country in favor of a Social Security restructuring plan that he never successfully sold to leaders on Capitol Hill.
Like Bill Clinton on health reform and George W. Bush on Social Security restructuring, Obama found that, in columnist Ron Brownstein's words, "big legislative crusades aimed at big national problems produce only big political headaches". The fault, in this view, lies in a polarized political system that punishes the bold.
Bush has elevated Social Security restructuring to the top of his domestic policy agenda, and the issue has become an ideological battleground between defenders of the traditional government safety net and advocates of the administration's "ownership society" agenda.
Restructuring Social Security: How will retirement ages respond?
Restructuring Social Security: How Will Retirement Ages Respond?. in The Problem Isn't Age: Work and Older Americans.
