Washington Post - Entitlement Stumbles

Stumbling on Their Sense of Entitlement

John Thain spent $1.2 million to redecorate his office.
By Steven Pearlstein
Wednesday, February 4, 2009; Page D01

Tom Daschle still doesn't get it. John Thain never did. Barack Obama gets it sometimes, Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner not so much. Corporate executives think they get it but aren't even close. College presidents, governors and union leaders, for the most part, don't have a clue.
"It" is an understanding of how fundamentally the political and economic environment has been transformed with the bursting of the bubble economy and how that has jeopardized basic assumptions and expectations and the way we do what we do.

Tom Daschle's problem wasn't that he didn't pay his taxes...

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