Two Interesting Articles Yesterday

I liked these two articles, found on Twitter yesterday. One article has to do with the many benefits of government, forgotten or ignored among our contemporary rhetoric about smaller government, as well as liberalism's familiar to make the case for the positive role of government in our lives.  The other is a brief complaint about the fact that, yes, we should be blaming President Bush for our current financial difficulties, because the "alternative reality" created by the conservative press ignores the truth that we were in bad financial shape as a country prior to Obama's administration.  What do you think?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/12/where-are-the-public-awareness-campaigns.html


http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/06/george-w-bushs-tab.html