The Observation Deck

I was prepared to disagree with his conclusions before I read the article:

http://www.slate.com/id/2243797/

While I have a nit or two to pick, the line that got me thinking was the line about the US budget process becoming more like what they have in California.

it is the culture of the post-industrial society, Charlie Brown.

It is the knowledge economy charlie brown.

For the first hundred-and-odd years, Uncle Sam's job was to dole out land and resources.

After Two World Wars, we had enough money to make a junkload of television and movie "westerns". Corny movies and dime novels are the root of conservative intellectualism.