Reporter's Notebook: The Fed Fall Guys
November, 1995
The federal government has suddenly become the fall guy for everything wrong in our lives, no matter how personal. If you don't like your job stocking groceries on the graveyard shift, it must be Bill Clinton's fault. In our fevered imaginations, Washington has replaced the Kremlin as the headquarters of an evil empire bent on world domination. With the end of the Cold War, the perceived enemy is now within.The odd thing is that the people who hate our government the most are the ones who profes...