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handle is hein.amenin/aeiablm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: continued from front flap by reclaiming those raw materials from bureaucracies and returning them to individ- uals, will revitalize the instruments through which life takes on meaning: family, vocation, and community Murray's goal, shared by Left and Right, is a society in which everyone, including the unluckiest among us, has the opportunity and means to construct a satisfying life. In Our Hands offers a rich and startling new way to think about how that goal might be achieved. CHARLES MURRAY is the W H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom at the American Enterprise Institute. His previous books include Losing Ground (1984), In Pursuit (1988), The Bell Curve (1994, with Richard J. Herrnstein), What It Means to Be a Libertarian (1997), and Human Accomplishment (2003). He lives with his wife and children in Burkittsville, Maryland. JA=KTN D BY JENNIFER MORRETTA Cover photograph 0 Dennis Galante/Stone/Getty Images Author photograph 02003 by John McDermot Photography IN OUR HANDS rT1 From the introduction C/) America's population is wealthier than any in history. Every year, the American government redistributes more than a trillion dol- lars of that wealth to provide for retirement, health care, and the alleviation of poverty. We still have millions of people without comfortable retirements, without adequate health care, and living in poverty. Only a government can spend so much money so ineffectually. The solution is to give the money to the people. What causes poverty in America? Lack of money. It's that simple. And Charles Murray is simple-minded. All geniuses are. Let King Gordius of Phygia standjor Congress, the courts, and the executive branch. Ae yoke of social we are programs has been tied to the chariot of politics with a knot so ingenious that no one can untie it. Now read In Our Hands and watch the sword of Alexander the Great-or rather the pen of Murray the Brilliant- sever policy's tangled skein. _Pj. O'RouRKE, author of Parliament of Whores In a world of timid prevaricators and world-weary complacency, thank Godfor Charles Murray. In this brief but profound tract, he restates the obvious: that government is in the way of longer safer happier livesJor all of us, and that we have the power to remove it. As the Republican Party slips ever more awayfrom its small government principles, Murray shows why these principles work, and, more importantly, how they can be put into prac- tice. We need his voice now more than ever, and in this book, it is as piercing, honest, and rigorous as ever -ANDREW SULLIVAN, Senior Editor The New Republic SMAL MEME/POLITKAL S(IEN(E $20.00 A= =erican Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 A E-7 [== I? F ='aar $20.00 IN OUR HANDS unagine that the United States were to scrap all its income trasj~r jprogirams- including Social Security ,Medicare, and all Jorns c iv& 'Iaf re-amnd give cwecy American age twen ty-one and older $10,30 avear for life. This is the Plan, a radical new approach to social policy that defies any partisan label. Charles Murray, whose previous books include Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, demonstrates that the Plan is financially feasible and then uses detailed analysis to argue that many goals of the welfare state- elimination of poverty, comfortable retirement for everyone, universal access to health care- would be better served under the Plan than under the current system. The most provocative chapters of In Our Hands discuss the broader impact of the Plan on all Americans, rich and poor alike. Murray argues that the most important quandary fac- ing wealthy societies is how to enable people to live meaningful lives in an age of plenty and security. Western Europe is the canary in the coal mine, in Murray's view, demon- strating that the advanced welfare state strips life of the raw materials that give human existence weight and consequence. Murray presents his reasons for thinking that the Plan, continued on back flap

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