Disowned by the Ownership Society
Naomi Klein, writing for The Nation, asks: "Remember the 'ownership society,' fixture of major George W. Bush addresses for the first four years of his presidency? 'We're creating ... an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property,' Bush said in October 2004. Washington think-tanker Grover Norquist predicted that the ownership society would be Bush's greatest legacy, remembered 'long after people can no longer pronounce or spell Fallujah.' Yet in Bush's final State of the Union address, the once-ubiquitous phrase was conspicuously absent. And little wonder: rather than its proud father, Bush has turned out to be the ownership society's undertaker."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020408H.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ownership+society
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Grover+Norquist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=State+of+the+Union
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Naomi+Klein
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020408H.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ownership+society
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Grover+Norquist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=State+of+the+Union
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Naomi+Klein
rudkla - 4. Feb, 22:37