Public Good? That sounds like Communism to me!

Yes, once upon a time we at least paid lip service to the idea that public spending helped everyone — even the well-to-do (from direct benefits, from enhancing markets, from providing more educated and healthy workforces). Today, we instead have Us against Them battles, often orchestrated by those at the top of the economic ladder who have the most to gain by them. "Public" becomes "stuff that takes money away from us and gives it to undeserving lazy / illegal / different Others." And so society becomes something (ironically) more Darwinian. #ddtb

Reshared post from +Bob Shrader

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Robert Reich (The Decline of the Public Good)
Robert Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under Pres…