A growing body of research suggests that America’s antipathy toward big government has another, less-often-acknowledged underpinning: the nation’s racial and ethnic diversity.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
The Divisions That Tighten the Purse Strings
A growing body of research suggests that America’s antipathy toward big government has another, less-often-acknowledged underpinning: the nation’s racial and ethnic diversity.
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Im curious what Dick Chaney is thinking about in the back of this picture. Look at that grin and the hands. I think he is going to try to take over the world. I think that it obvious that the arguement over how large the government should be has underpinnings in race. People of the same race often vote the same way in elections. Why would it be any differnt in this case.Jonathan Louey
I think this is an understandable, yet not rational or moral, phenomena. It makes sense that the less the wealthy feel in common with the poor, the less they will be sympathetic of the poor's situation, and the less likely they will be to support redistribution programs. Without commenting on wealth distribution progams, I think that rationally such decisions should be based on if the poor are deserving or not, not if they are racially similar to the rich.
The biggest, most innefficient government program is social security. It would be great to cut it, but that will never happen as long as politicians are looking for that senior citizen vote (they all vote cause they have nothing better to do). The solution is to remove the incentive for politicians to appeal to old people. Impose a maximum oting age! Once people hit 60, they should no longer be allowed to vote. This way, they can't do anything when we cut their social security. Most of them will probably be too decrepid and senile to make an informed decision anyway.
Dick Cheney is so misunderstood.
Pierce, why don't we just float grandma out on the next iceberg?
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