Fred LaSor
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September 6, 2012
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Accumulation of power

EDITOR:Two recent columns, one by Francis Fukuyama in the Financial Times, the other by Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post, examine alternate views of what we as citizens preparing to vote in November might ask of, and expect from, government.Fukuyama recommends "a renewal of the tradition of Alexander Hamilton and Theodore Roosevelt that sees the necessity of a strong if limited state, and that uses state power for the purposes of national revival." Krauthammer, on the other hand, quotes President Obama's recent admonition that "you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen" as illustrative of the overweening grasp of …

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