Instapundit » Blog Archive » MICHAEL BARONE: Voting For The National Interest, Not Self-Interest. The recoil in 2010 against …: "A government intertwined with the private sector inevitably picks winners and losers. It allows well-positioned insiders to game the system for private gain. It bails out the improvident and sticks those who made prudent decisions with the bill.
Modest-income Americans think this is wrong. They want it fixed more than they want a few more bucks in their paychecks.
Traditionally, most Americans have opposed crony capitalism and corruption. But people in Washington have tended to misunderstand what’s behind this, interpreting it as a negotiating strategy rather than a values question.
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 10:47 am"
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