This is a must-read from the New Yorker. Here’s the penultimate paragraph.
The choice is clear. The Romney-Ryan ticket represents a constricted and backward-looking vision of America: the privatization of the public good. In contrast, the sort of public investment championed by Obama-and exemplified by both the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Affordable Care Act-takes to heart the old civil-rights motto “Lifting as we climb.” That effort cannot, by itself, reverse the rise of inequality that has been under way for at least three decades. But we’ve already seen the future that Romney represents, and it doesn’t work
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