corrente

"Once a program becomes the narrow concern of a minority of the population -- and not just any minority, but a minority that can't afford lobbysists, doesn't enjoy access to the media, is socially isolated from the American elite, etc. -- it gets squeezed out in favor of programs whose constituents do enjoy those things."

---quoth Matt Yglesias, guesting over at Talking Points Memo, on the likely fate of Social Security after Bush gets through with it.