It’s Just Too Bad

09/29/2005

Paul Munnis

It has not come as a surprise to Democrats that the GOP, long the enemy of welfare, is in the process of creating the biggest welfare state that America has seen since the great depression.

Many storm victims are being put onto the welfare rolls and it is being done by the GOP and certainly not by the Democrats.

Once they are on the welfare rolls it is hard to get them off. This has consequences for decades ahead and precedents are being set that can have weight in the Courts in coming disasters.

What is causing this to happen is a lack of appreciation for the role of the private sector and the responsibility of the government at every level. When you spend your lifetime in denial of the needs of others you do not know how to deal with them when you must. That is the GOP dilemma. Open credit cards with a $250,000 spending limit is a case in point. Have they gone mad?

When you spend your time excluding 50% of America from a dialog on rebuilding America and you listen instead to a fringe group not responsible for financial affairs of a nation, then you are begging for trouble.

That is exactly what is happening in Washington right now. The problem is too abstract for the GOP. They need experienced Democrats to help them through the maze of possibilities. They have cut Democrats off from the discussion.

Too bad for them.

Too bad for the victims.

Too bad for America.