"You never know what the mix of ideology and greed there is with these people," says Dean Baker, co-director of the
Center for Economic and Policy Research. "The people who are calling the shots are just grabbing everything they can."
Robert Naiman of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a Washington, D.C., think tank, points out that a program of universal health insurance would cost a little less than Bush's massive tax-cut proposal.
"In a situation where the price-to-earnings ratio for stock is close to double its historic average, the return to holding a share of stock will be close to half its historic average," the Center for Economic and policy Research asserts in a recent study.