Business people continue to believe, mutatis mutandis, that «what is good for General Motors is good for America»; the new middle - class professionals, no doubt with equal sincerity, believe that the «
reordering of
national priorities» that guarantees their privileges benefits the poor, the underclass or whatever other morally acceptable beneficiary can be plausibly cited.
Congress has not only rejected the president's proposal to cut the
National Institutes of Health as part of a broad
reordering of
priorities, away from science and social spending; lawmakers from both parties have joined forces to increase spending on biomedical research — and have bragged about it.