The problem is, however, that public sentiments do not amount to much in America. If there is money to be made, useful idiots - bleeding hearts "saving or children" or efficiency minded "consumer advocates" - will get the lime light to sell the measure to the public as a some kind of public benefit mission, while the right wing noise machine will drown any critical voices. At the end, people will no longer remembers what their initial sentiments were, grudgingly accept the "reform" being dished out to the authorities and the business cabal.
What makes this particular case special is how blatant it is. Unlike education "reformers," these guys did not even bother to recruit useful idiots to provide a "human face" to their profiteering. They frankly talked about their true goals - unions busting and driving wages down.
Wojtek
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:07 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Most interesting about this article are the comments.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/business/27libraries.html?src=me&ref=business
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> Joanna
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