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Because to win an election you tell people what they want to hear, once elected you give the lobbyists (this includes govt workers themselves) as much as possib
by peterjancelis 13y ago
Because to win an election you tell people what they want to hear, once elected you give the lobbyists (this includes govt workers themselves) as much as possible. It's all about marginal revenue, the votes cast are a sunk revenue.
Bush: Ran on humble foreign policy, expanded foreign policy drastically.
Obama: Ran on civil liberties, eroded civil liberties drastically.
The crowd that pretends to be outraged on principle depends on the letter behind the politician's name.
- hga 13y agoYour dinging of Bush on his post-election shift to a foreign policy president fails hard due to it being after 9/11. And it's not like he didn't continue his promised domestic policies, remember Medicare Part D, No Child Gets Ahead, the all in effort that ruined the party for a while on immigration, and the attempt to reform Social Security?