George A. Young is troubled. Like many other Americans of middle-income status, he’s bothered by recent events. He’s one of that category of citizens so conveniently—and so cavalierly—described by pollsters as the “small” businessman. He is, in actuality, the steady working professional, who, as they say, helps form the fabric of our society.
George knows about inflation, knows what it is costing him and his business. Daily he lives with government overregulation. Middle-aged and middle-class, he constantly fights two battles, one with the profit margin and the other with the waistline. He seems to be losing both. And with such routine problems facing him, he occasionally thinks, too, about bigger problems—things like the energy crisis, even foreign affairs. He isn’t quite happy about the Panama Canal treaty, but he’s not sure. He’d like to see, just for once, some kind of stability in the Middle East. He also has a sense that maybe, just maybe, the Carter Administration really doesn’t have a sense of direction, that it’s just drifting with the public apathy.
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