WATCH: RESISTANCE TO SPENDING FROM 2010 People do not want to invest in infrastr

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/build-we-wont/KRUGMAN WATCH: RESISTANCE TO SPENDING FROM 2010

People do not want to invest in infrastructure in the midst of a class war, even if it’s battles are conducted by policy rather than by violence. People do not have faith in the government. They cannot have faith in the government, because we have too disparate a set of interests.

You’re approaching the problem from the wrong direction. There is no ‘We” any longer. The use of factions and class warfare to undermine the old class, race and cultural power base was successful.

If people do not own their government, or feel that it represents them, then it is an external entity. They’re acting as if it is.

There is no “We”.