Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Reagan's Attack on Medicare Revisited

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/business/economy/15leonhardt.html?hp

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The same arguments have been raised against social safety nets since the New Deal. One hundred years ago conservatives opposed public education as socialism. Today they want to privatize public education by using public funds to provide vouchers so that "consumers" can pay for privately operated schools.

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