MB Civic

By Harold Meyerson | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 | The Washington Post

“…What the Republican field fails to realize is that the America that Goldwater and Reagan defended against the presumed predations of government no longer exists. When Barry and Ronnie walked the earth, most Americans had enduring relations with their employers (ensured, in many cases, by a union contract), and their employers often provided them with health benefits and a pension. Most banks and corporations had not yet traded in their American citizenship for a new global identity that places millions of Americans’ jobs and pay levels in competition with those of billions of workers in distant climes.

Clearly, the private sector that Barry and Ron extolled while denouncing government ain’t what it used to be, and Americans know it….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101601519_pf.html