it’s a very complicated situation because you have… there’s a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, ‘Do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less?’ They say ‘Yeah, absolutely.’ Then you name specific things like pell grants for students? and they say ‘no… not that.’ How about NIH? Medical research funding? ‘no… you really shouldn’t cut that.’ And pretty soon you prove that what the american public is against is arithmetic.
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