Two articles, same theme: ideological inevitability of disaster response

rlev1223

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Mon Sep-05-05 10:46 AM
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Two articles, same theme: ideological inevitability of disaster response

LA Times - Business:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-golden5sep05,1,6942190.column?coll=la-headlines-business

NY Times - Krugman

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/opinion/05krugman.html?th&emc=th

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eallen

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Mon Sep-05-05 10:51 AM
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1. This could be a major theme for Democratic resurgence in 2006.

Our own version of a contract with America: the notion that there are some public functions that government legitimately serves, that those who are elected to office should believe in those functions, fund them, and staff them with people who are experienced and competent, that running these functions on the basis of ideology wastes public resources, and that free-market fundamentalism undermines the very social framework in which capitalism thrives.

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rlev1223

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Mon Sep-05-05 10:55 AM
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2. What do you bet....

...that some version of "see, the federal government can't solve problems" creeps up as a repub meme, perversely using their own ideological dismantling of federal functions to justify further "starving the beast" with the planned continuation of tax cuts.

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Mon Sep-05-05 11:36 AM
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3. They will certainly try to do that.

These are two good articles.

Krugman really nails with his usual clarity:

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But the federal government's lethal ineptitude wasn't just a consequence of Mr. Bush's personal inadequacy; it was a consequence of ideological hostility to the very idea of using government to serve the public good. For 25 years the right has been denigrating the public sector, telling us that government is always the problem, not the solution. Why should we be surprised that when we needed a government solution, it wasn't forthcoming?

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