Hmm …

… Culture after the credit crunch | Books | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)


Robinson would do well to put down her Bible and dictionary for a bit and take another look at the Constitution. In particular she might want to ponder the 10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Robinson says that  "suddenly anything public is 'socialism', therefore a deviancy, inevitably second-rate, and a corruption of, so to speak, the public virtue. If I could find any gleam of intelligence or reflection in all this, or any sign of successful education, I would be happy to admire it, so passionate are my loyalties." Well, a little simple arithmetic might come to her aid here: The U.S. federal government is running on empty. It is paying its way by borrowing, and the sums it is borrowing are far from chump change.  This, to use a word I suspect is a favorite of Robinson's, is unsustainable.