The President’s former speechwriter makes an ass of himself in one paragraph:
My low point with the Republican Party came in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In attempting to deliver benefits to victims, the administration found men and women who had never had a bank account; families entirely disconnected from the mainstream economy. A problem rooted in generations of governmentally enforced oppression—slavery and segregation—demanded an active response from government to encourage economic empowerment and social mobility.
Let’s see, slavery ended in the 1860’s and segregation in the 1960’s. Has the new account desk at the local bank been closed for forty years? Was there a rip in time itself? These folks didn’t have bank accounts because they didn’t have jobs, they had welfare. (Or they had jobs off the books, and weren’t paying taxes.)
What we saw after Katrina was not an argument for more government, but for less. (Via NRO Corner.)
