RASMUSSEN: Reasons for optimism add to at least 65 million
I am an optimist. I believe that America’s best days are still to come and today’s children will live a life far better than their parents and grandparents.
Scott Rasmussen / Special to IBJ
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RASMUSSEN: Politics now minus-sum game where everyone loses
“A simple recipe for violence: promise a lot, deliver a little. Lead people to believe they will be much better off, but let there be no dramatic improvement.” The brilliant political scientist Aaron Wildavsky wrote these words in 1968 while America was engulfed in race riots and anti-war protests. Sadly, his words from long ago eerily describe the politics of 21st-century America.
RASMUSSEN: Health care, shutdown merely symptoms
Many reporters caught up in the bizarre world of official Washington have written extensively on political tactics and implications of the so-called government shutdown and disastrous launch of HealthCare.gov. Typical was a New York Times headline that blared “Republicans, Sensing Weakness in Health Law Rollout, Switch Tactics.”
RASMUSSEN: Wall Street won out over Main Street
It’s become common over the past year or two to note how well Wall Street is doing while Main Street is still struggling.
RASMUSSEN: A desire to exercise rights—reasonably
As Americans, we tend to believe we have the right to do whatever we want, so long as it doesn’t interfere with the rights of others. But sometimes the lines get a little blurry.