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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (93409)11/3/2008 2:25:34 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 541671
 
Maybe the difference between you and me is that I don't get that exercised about expanding the powers of government unless it's excessive.

The thought is that perceptions of crisis create conditions for "excessive".

Also "A little more regulation here and there" adds up to excessive over time.

My big concern is new entitlement programs, which don't wax and wane but grow like Topsy.

And perceptions of crisis, and of "failure of the free market", combined with one party (particularly the Democrats, but than Bush started the drug program) being in dominate control create the conditions for new entitlements.

If the political or fiscal situation does limit spending in the short run (and it may not) the program can be structured to grow over time (look at the early years of Medicare),

If we can come out of an Obama administration without single-payer health care and other inherently runaway entitlement programs

That's the point, we may not.
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