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Arthur Brooks, the head of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank, feels that the real culture war in America today is not about gay marriage or abortion, divisive though those issues are, but about capitalism. Everyone agrees that Wall Street messed up last year, but many are disturbed by the expansion of government that followed the crash. Voters particularly dislike the way the state is using their money to reward deadbeats, says Mr Brooks. They themselves work hard and live within their means. They see their neighbour, who borrowed more than he could afford to buy a fancy house, getting a bail-out to save him from the consequences of his own poor judgment. They see reckless bankers getting bailed out too, and the ill-managed carmakers of Detroit likewise. And they resent it.
There is some truth in Mr Brooks's analysis. The bank and car bail-outs were indeed unpopular. And the fear that the Democrats aim to make government too big, too expensive and too intrusive set off a wave of "tea-party" protests that is still rolling. Democrats have tried to dismiss the tea parties as motivated by racism, because Mr Obama is black. But racism cannot explain why the president's approval rating has fallen this year. As Mr Obama observed: "I was actually black before the election."

A. 어휘
the American Enterprise Institute 미국 기업연구소. conservative 보수적인.
think-tank 연구소. abortion 落胎(낙태). divisive 분열된, 불화하고 있는.
mess up 엉망진창으로 만들다. disturb 걱정 끼치다, 평화를 깨뜨리다.
expansion 확장. crash 추락. reward 보상하다.
deadbeat빚을 갚지 않는 사람, 돈 떼어먹는 사람.
means=income 수입. bail-out 긴급구조. consequence 결과.
reckless 무모한, 부주의한. ill-managed 경영을 잘 못한.
resent 원망하다, 분개하다. analysis 분석. the Democrats 미국 민주당 당원(의원).
intrusive 침입하는, 밀고 들어오는. set off 출발시키다.
dismiss 棄却(기각)하다, 해산시키다. motivate 동기를 유발시키다.
approval rating 지지율. observe 소견으로서 말하다, 관찰하다.

B. 구문
- divisive though those issues are=though those issues are divisive.

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Some of the critics of big government are a bit hysterical. Glenn Beck, a talk-show host, foments panic and then urges listeners to buy gold from a company he endorses. Michelle Malkin, a blogger, has written a bestselling book about the Obama administration called "Culture of Corruption". This is silly, but the rabble-rousers are popular because their audience has genuine grievances. Many working-class men have lost their jobs. Those who are still employed have seen their wages stagnate and their pensions shrivel in the stockmarket crash. Their health insurance is insecure, but they don't trust Congress not to make it worse.

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Meanwhile, they can see that one group of Americans has been practically unaffected by the recession: government employees. Their hours have not been cut, their benefits are gold-plated and they are almost impossible to sack. In good times, few Americans notice these things, but in bad times, the disparity grates. Cops and firefighters can retire in their 40s and draw defined-benefit pensions for life. With overtime, one tenth of the police in Massachusetts made more than the governor's annual salary in 2006, according to the Boston Globe. Including benefits, the average employee of New York City makes more than $100,000, according to Forbes, while some Californian prison guards "sock away $300,000 a year".

A. 어휘
critic 비판자. foment 선동하다. panic 공포, 恐慌(공황). endorse 승인하다.
corruption 부패. silly 어리석은. rabble 烏合之卒(오합지졸).
rabble-rouser 민중선동가. genuine 진짜의, 眞性(진성)의, 진심에서 우러나는.
grievance 불평, 원망. stagnate 停滯(정체)하다. pension 연금.
shrivel 줄다, 말라죽다, 주름지다. insurance 보험. insecure 안전하지 않은.
practically 실제로. recession 불황. employee 종업원. gold-plated 금으로 씌운.
sack 해고하다. disparity불균형, 不等(부등). grate 불쾌하게 하다, 갈다.
cop 경찰. defined-benefit pensions 確定給與形(확정급여형) 연금.
overtime 초과근무수당. one tenth 1/10. governor 주지사.
annual salary 연봉. the Boston Globe 신문 이름.
sock away 저장하다, 강탈하다.

B. 구문
- they don't trust Congress not to make it worse.→they trust Congress to make it worse