Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe. September 18, 2008. The Bush administration's strategy boiled down to allowing Wall Street to privatize the gains while government socialized the losses.
Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. January 29, 2008. If a government that protects ordinary people is a "nanny state," then one protecting the super-rich deserves the title of "super nanny state."
Paul Krugman, The New York Times. August 19, 2007. The real-estate bubble of recent years, like the stock bubble of the late 1990s, was both caused and fed by widespread malfeasance. Now, those same bad actors want to be rescued by the "nanny state."
