I heard an interesting story on NPR this morning, and it got me to thinking, so I put some thoughts down. It's a story that's underreported, I think: when government goes good, and also a smaller story about the financial crisis.
Over the past eight years, we were subjected to an endless barrage of messages — from the White House, from Congress, from pundits, from my grandmother — that government is what is wrong with this country. That government is the problem, not a solution. This sentiment goes back much further than the Bush administration, but those guys perfected the government hatred.
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