Smart people, stupid people and budget politics

US Treasury Building
US Treasury Building

The media's job is to inform the public, but when it comes to the US budget,they obfuscate, writes DEAN BAKER

Doing policy work in Washington, I tend to be around people who are highly educated and think of themselves as very intelligent.

Many of them think of ordinary Americans as being stupid and ill-informed. After all, they understand little about politics and the government; in their view, this reflects a lack of intelligence.

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