Re: The Cost of Stupidity

[Newdem@aol.com]

Hi, Quan--

This is an excellent article, but I think that the phrase "the cost of 
studpidity" is a misnomer. An important goal of the Administration's huge 
expenditures in Iraq, as for its tax giveaways to the rich, is precisely to starve 
domestic programs like education, Medicare, etc. 

The US economy is awash in wealth, more than the rich know what to do with. 
They found in the 1960s and early '70s, however, that a population which feels 
secure and comfortable begins to demand much more out of life--unreasonable 
things like a voice in their society and higher expectations for what their 
lives should be like. 

Elite policy of the last 30 years has been to "starve the beast" of 
government--that is, government's social programs like housing, education, medical 
care, etc. (all except government's military and police functions). It has been 
precisely aimed at making people's lives insecure and lowering their 
expectations and shutting them up. 

It's not stupidity--it's social control. It's the plan.

Dave Stratman
Editor, New Democracy
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