> http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/mar2001/nad-m30.shtml > What is your assessment of this article from the Fourth > International?
The object of Nader's critique is spending programs that provide public subsidies to corporations. I don't necessarily buy his position, but it's a perfectly respectable left statement. This stuff, incidentally, is a very small part of the budget. The tax breaks are much more important. The author reveals his/her stupidity with: "In assessing this altogether remarkable article, one is obliged to assume that Nader's professed hope in Bush's ability to oppose the influence of “corporate fat cats” is merely a journalistic device aimed at currying favor with the new administration." Otherwise the piece has multiple inaccuracies. I'm not going to unpack them all. I would advise any interested party to try and verify any assertion before taking it at face value. mbs
