To say he supports the economic status quo does not do justice to his conservatism.
None of these is meant to defend the economic status quo or a Republican president or a democratic Congress.
The economic status quo in America is broken, and it needs to be fixed or the country could become a banana republic.
The current socio-economic status quo often seems to put younger generations at a disadvantage thereby perpetuating this societal frustration and angst.
The economic turmoil could one day unhinge the cozy political status quo.
But now, with the bipartisan congressional supercommittee on debt reduction poised to endorse spectrum auctions, some in the broadcast lobby have changed their tune acknowledging the urgent nature of the coming spectrum shortage and claiming that, if left alone, they can ensure the status quo produces innovation and economic renewal.
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Japan's old guard worries that radical steps will precipitate an economic crisis, and so prefers the status quo.
Other elements central to the negotiation that would impact middle income earners, mainly the extension of Bush era tax cuts for incomes below the border, patching the alternative minimum tax, and the potential loss in the payroll tax cut, suggest that the economic situation of the middle class as a result of the fiscal reorganization will remain the status quo at best.
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Possible scenarios range from maintaining the status quo to a Chinese-style economic opening.
The concentration on redistribution policy and the developing status quo-like conditions indicate that the fiscal cliff fight is not a fight over making economic conditions better for the middle class.
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Fourth, America needs a new, forward-thinking immigration system that replaces the failed status quo, meets the country's economic needs and honors its immigrant heritage and the rule of law.
"As universities are facing severe economic conditions and ferocious global competition it is clear that the status quo is not viable, " she said.
The status quo becomes a government-supported Establishment protected from economic failure.
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With the exception of Jack Cade's rising in 1450 and the Peasants' Revolt 70 years earlier (a large-scale popular uprising with genuinely revolutionary social and economic aims), medieval rebellions were often more about preserving the status quo rather than challenging it.
Without their voices, the health care reform debate will continue to be stalled and hemmed in by older Americans who are in a better economic position than young people and who are afraid to change the status quo, despite all signs that it is rapidly failing.
This would be respectable in many Western countries, but as Kirill Rogov, an economic and political analyst, argues, it is not enough to sustain the political status quo.
They say they want their leaders to maintain the political status quo that is, de facto independence while focusing on improving economic conditions.
Economic revolutions require institutions to change and maybe make history, because if they stick to the status quo they soon become history.
But, the status quo is, in fact, tantamount to saddling school-age children with more debt, weaker economic growth, and fewer opportunities for jobs and advancement.
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Yet, in the face of crushing economic pressures, there are new sprouts of creativity, which powerfully, and confidentially are rising to challenge the status quo with style, innovation and fresh perspective.
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