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...The response to Hurricane Katrina was $85bn in public spending. The collapse of AIG, the insurance giant, cost $85bn; Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae a further $42bn....
...It can still well up spontaneously, as after Hurricane Katrina, but too often it seems society’s ears and eyes are tuned only to its iPods and Xboxes that too many monstrous things bypass its brains....
...Grover Norquist’s weekly Washington meetings draw together conservative activists dedicated to all sorts of causes, from gun rights to property rights, from home-schooling advocates to anti-abortion campaigners...
...“Hurricane Katrina has set off a revolt in the Republican constituency, so I believe Bush will need to find spending restraints and the country will focus on that in 2006 and 2008,” says Grover Norquist,...
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