Michael Barone "Bigger government, in this view, helps the ordinary citizen who is otherwise at the mercy of the masters of the marketplace. And those citizens will be grateful, especially in times of economic distress, to the politicians who expand government ever further.
"This theory has been getting some empirical testing over the past two years. And it doesn't seem to be working any better than Keynes thought the theories of defunct economists were working in the 1930s.
"The Obama Democrats have been giving Americans more government, with a vengeance. But the voters seem about to wreak vengeance in their turn."
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