Quid Pro What?

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Quid Pro What?
By Carolyn Kay

Hurricane Katrina ripped the roof off the New Orleans Superdome and the mask off the pretense that we Americans can have our cake and eat it, too. That we can have foreign wars without depleting our emergency response capability at home. That global warming is not happening, so we need not prepare for it. That we can neglect the nation’s physical infrastructure without paying any consequences.

We can only hope that the awakening will extend to the realization that other prevalent American beliefs are myths, as well. That we can have tax cuts for the rich without creating a huge deficit for future generations, for instance. Or that we can destroy the American middle class and still have a strong and vibrant economy.

Why are America’s business leaders silent on these issues? The litany of recent announcements should be enough to make even the most rabid, anti-tax right wingers stop and think…

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Carolyn Kay is founder and editor of MakeThemAccountable.com, and is writing a book about American politics, Off Balance.
http://makethemaccountable.com/balance/