[lbo-talk] alternation

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>I alternate between thinking that the Bush admin's scheming to use vouchers 
>and other right-wing faves in NO reconstruction is proof that they're lost 
>in a bubble, dreaming, and that it's the liberals who are the ones lost in 
>the bubble, dreaming, that the right has taken a fatal blow from Katrina. 
>Which is it? Neither? Both?

There is reason for concern.  Thomas Friedman, whom I consider an 
uber-bellwether of conventional thinking, has suddenly shifted from praising 
America as a global paradigm to finding "something troublingly 
self-indulgent and slothful about America today."  To Friedman, the lesson 
posed by Katrina is clear:  American society needs more "discipline."  In 
particular, he thinks the US should model itself on Singapore.  QED, what?

<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/14/opinion/14friedman.html?hp>

Carl