Katrina's lesson lost on LIB's
President Bush has missed nearly every opportunity to shrink the size of government, thus allowing the left to characterize him as a 'big government conservative'. The President has expanded the federal role in nearly every area of our lives, and he missed the greatest opportunity to back out of that path with Hurrican Katrina.
Katrina demonstrated the most demonstable example of big governments ability to deliver point of service effeciently-they can't!
The lesson of Katrina is no matter how important the task or dire the circumstance, big government is the problem not the solution as Reagan said. While the idea of centralized control of the spokes of the federal wheel on Homeland Security is a wonderful idea and not all liberal in the security sense, it fails nearly everytime in the delivery attempt.
As conservatives have contended for decades, point of service is far more affective when done at a more local level. Local city, county or village deliver services better than State, and the State delivers usually better than the Federal Government.
What Katrina should show us, and does if you read the report, is that the Federal response was not better than the local and State response--which this time was bad on their levels as well.
Liberals should take notice that despite all the good intentions in the world, the response was woeful. Surely this is why the left and DEMS have focused upon the President and alleged racism rather than the inate inefficency of government--this despite the fact that it was a black mayor who ignored the buses and a Dem Governor who failed to respond and officially request assistance of NG troops.
Certainly this will not disuade the left and the DEMS from supporting additional large government ideas...and it appears not to dissuade BUSH from doing the same. The Prescription Drug Medicare dosage offered by this WH could help to limit the great benefits of leadership offered by Bush by posterity.
The failings of Big Government reside in the belief that somehow they know better and bureacracy can deliver timely. Reality is such that all need to come to realize the brillance of the 10th amendment...the power of the people.
Yet instead of understanding the lesson of Katrina-that big government is not the solution to community issues--the left believes that it is the boogie man King George that is the problem. Sadly, this is partially right, as long as George Bush believes that government can be efficent he too is offering some bad Ideas. President Bush should become the first President to scrap a bad Idea---Kill Prescription Drug benefits added to Medicare--Lessen the burdent of the Fed on Education and free us from burdensome Campaign Finance regs, Free us from Sarbanes Oxley, free us from a 2.77 Trillion budget!
Yet, again, LIBS can not see that big government is driving us to this cliff of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The cliff that these three alone are an albatross on the necks of the young!
Katrina showed that despite the best of intentions government is not the solution. People lived in New Orleans and lived in areas eventaully flooded because of tax payer dollars dolled out to allow them to live there...yes it was a government disaster but it took root long before Bush...Bush may have some bad 'big government conservative' tendencies but his offset of this by SS reform ideas make him a far better leader than any Dem...not to mention his vision filled leadership on Terrorism...the Constitutional role of government!
Dems and libs will never understand the failings of big G...
Katrina demonstrated the most demonstable example of big governments ability to deliver point of service effeciently-they can't!
The lesson of Katrina is no matter how important the task or dire the circumstance, big government is the problem not the solution as Reagan said. While the idea of centralized control of the spokes of the federal wheel on Homeland Security is a wonderful idea and not all liberal in the security sense, it fails nearly everytime in the delivery attempt.
As conservatives have contended for decades, point of service is far more affective when done at a more local level. Local city, county or village deliver services better than State, and the State delivers usually better than the Federal Government.
What Katrina should show us, and does if you read the report, is that the Federal response was not better than the local and State response--which this time was bad on their levels as well.
Liberals should take notice that despite all the good intentions in the world, the response was woeful. Surely this is why the left and DEMS have focused upon the President and alleged racism rather than the inate inefficency of government--this despite the fact that it was a black mayor who ignored the buses and a Dem Governor who failed to respond and officially request assistance of NG troops.
Certainly this will not disuade the left and the DEMS from supporting additional large government ideas...and it appears not to dissuade BUSH from doing the same. The Prescription Drug Medicare dosage offered by this WH could help to limit the great benefits of leadership offered by Bush by posterity.
The failings of Big Government reside in the belief that somehow they know better and bureacracy can deliver timely. Reality is such that all need to come to realize the brillance of the 10th amendment...the power of the people.
Yet instead of understanding the lesson of Katrina-that big government is not the solution to community issues--the left believes that it is the boogie man King George that is the problem. Sadly, this is partially right, as long as George Bush believes that government can be efficent he too is offering some bad Ideas. President Bush should become the first President to scrap a bad Idea---Kill Prescription Drug benefits added to Medicare--Lessen the burdent of the Fed on Education and free us from burdensome Campaign Finance regs, Free us from Sarbanes Oxley, free us from a 2.77 Trillion budget!
Yet, again, LIBS can not see that big government is driving us to this cliff of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The cliff that these three alone are an albatross on the necks of the young!
Katrina showed that despite the best of intentions government is not the solution. People lived in New Orleans and lived in areas eventaully flooded because of tax payer dollars dolled out to allow them to live there...yes it was a government disaster but it took root long before Bush...Bush may have some bad 'big government conservative' tendencies but his offset of this by SS reform ideas make him a far better leader than any Dem...not to mention his vision filled leadership on Terrorism...the Constitutional role of government!
Dems and libs will never understand the failings of big G...
posted by Tom Gaitens at 11:58 AM
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