[lbo-talk] poll: 45% of Americans have their heads hopelessly wedged up their asses

Autoplectic autoplectic at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 13:57:56 PDT 2005


On 9/5/05, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> It's also a first read. No doubt there will be lots more polling to
> come - with larger samples, and with more thought-out opinions. But
> given the magnitude of the federal fuck-up, the numbers should have
> been lopsided. They're not. And I wouldn't be surprised to see the
> right conclude from this: see, you can't trust the feds to do
> anything right. Privatize disaster relief!

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"Ideological cynicism about government easily morphs into a readiness to treat government spending as a way to reward your friends. After all, if you don't believe government can do any good, why not?"

<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/opinion/05krugman.html>



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