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This Is Not My Beautiful Fish

Reason Staff | 8.8.2006 3:02 PM

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Order the "grouper" in the Tampa Bay area, and you're more than likely to get anything but. A St. Petersburg Times survey of 11 restaurants featuring grouper showed that six served their customers a cheaper fish instead.

The same thing happens all the time in American government, metaphorically speaking. Take Social Security: We ordered a "safety net," and got a Ponzi scheme. We ordered Health Care reform and got the Bush Medicare expansion.

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