Tag: Social Security  Don’t Leave Room for Desert  Duncan
“Atrios” Black sums up and amplifies on a much longer post by
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald as follows:  Just adding on to Glenn’s
post, much opposition to the government actually doing anything
decent for people comes from the idea that the government is
going to take my tax money and give it to people who don’t
deserve it. The problem is that for decades the Dems have tried
to get around this by making sure policies and programs were
relatively small and incremental, everything targeted and means
tested. But doing that effectively confirmed the critics’ point.
The big (giant) government programs which are most popular are
the ones which are universal - Social Security and Medicare -
and other less controversial government programs, like highway
spending, are also perceived to benefit people across the board.
There’s a couple of interesting things going on here that seem
worth unpacking.  The first is actually a legitimate point about
how valid arguments a