house coverage here on c-span, senate on c-span to. this is the outlook section of the washington post from the weekend. on one side, the forces of free enterprise on the other, and expanded the paternalistic government, and it is time to choose. he writes that this is not the culture war of the 1990 s, not a fight over guns, gays, or abortion. those old battles have been eclipsed by a struggle of two competing visions of the country plus future. in one, america will continue to be an exception one asian organized from the principles of free enterprise, limited and on the, on other, america will move toward european statism, a managed economy, and large-scale income redistribution. these visions are not reconcilable right now. we must choose. i wanted to get your thoughts this monday morning as we enter a busy week. the idea here is free enterprise versus an expanding and paternalistic government. that is what arthur burks rights, with the american enterprise institute.
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recovering from a real disaster, natural disaster, wars, that sort of thing. why? because old ideas, old institutions get swept away and more rapidly than anyone would have ever expected. new sprouts come up, and i think that will happen here. new people, new ideas, reformulations of old ideas adapted to the problems of today. i choose to believe that we will see that. i also think that if barack obama had run on this agenda that he is actually implemented, i have serious doubts that he would have won last fall. he ran on fiscal probity, going through the budget line by line and cutting out waste. he was excoriating bush s deficit spending, and he ran on tax cuts. . i think obama has an approval rating because he has done a number of things that are called whistles to us. for most people, he has not really done anything wrong yet and he has not done anything to upset them yet. when he has to pay for his agenda or does not pay for it and you see practical consequences from t