America’s attention is focused on Iraq these days, so the Bush Administration’s recent announcement that it plans to privatize 800,000 federal jobs, beginning with air traffic controllers, got very little attention.
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Category Archives: Public Policy and Governance
The Government We Deserve
There is an old saying to the effect that people get the government they deserve. I used to believe that–before the current administration took office. Now I’m not so sure.
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Bush Trade Policy
Bruce Bartlett, a reliably conservative columnist whose commentary on economic matters appears regularly on the editorial page of the Indianapolis Star, recently delivered a scathing analysis of what passes for trade policy in the Bush Administration. After accusing the administration of ?incredibly poor judgment in trade policy ever since taking office,? Bartlett pointed out that the steel tariffs imposed by Bush have backfired badly, by costing jobs in industries that use steel. Bush?s agricultural subsidies, said Bartlett, ?doomed a multilateral trade agreement.?
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A Spin Too Far
As the Bush Administration proposes to further relax the rules restricting concentration of media ownership, it seems fair to look at the current performance of the conglomerates that increasingly decide what Americans should know.
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