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Dems’ agenda: Total dependency By George F. Will Sunday, February 14, 2010 - Added 1d 21h ago WASHINGTON - Only two things are infinite - the expanding universe and Democrats’ hostility to the District of Columbia’s school choice program. Killing this small program, which currently benefits 1,300 mostly poor and minority children, is odious and indicative. It is a small piece of something large - the Democrats’ dependency agenda, which aims to multiply the ways Americans are dependent on government. Democrats, in their canine devotion to teachers’ unions, oppose empowering poor children to escape dependency on even terrible government schools.cw-1 Unions and their poodles say school choice siphons money from public schools. But federal money funds D.C.’s program, so killing it denies education money to D.C. while increasing the number of pupils D.C. must support. For congressional Democrats, expanding dependency on government is an end in itself. They began the Obama administration by expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. It wascreated for children of the working poor, but the expansion made millions of middle-class children eligible - some in households earning $125,000. The aim was to swell the number of people who grow up dependent on government health care. Many Democrats favor - as Barack Obama did in 2003 - a “single-payer” health insurance system, which means universal dependency on government. The “public option” insurance proposal was to be a step toward that. So was the proposed “alternative” of making 55- to 64-year-olds eligible for Medicare. Both of these dependency multipliers will be revived. The government used TARP funds not for their stipulated purpose of buying banks’ “toxic assets,” but to pull auto companies and other economic entities into the spreading web of dependency. Servile - because dependent - banks were pliable during the farce of Chrysler’s bankruptcy, but secured creditors resisted when settled law was disregarded. Nevertheless, those creditors received less per dollar than did an unsecured creditor, the United Auto Workers, which relishes dependency on government as an alternative to economic realism. Democrats’ financial “reforms” may aim to reduce financial institutions to dependent appendages of the government. By reducing banks to public utilities, credit, which is the lifeblood of capitalism, could be priced and allocated by government. Many Democrats, opposing the Supreme Court, advocate new campaign finance “reforms” that will further empower government to regulate the quantity, timing and content of speech about government. Otherwise voters will hear more such speech than government considers good for them. Such paternalism is American progressivism’s oldest tradition. A century ago, Herbert Croly published “The Promise of American Life,” a book - still in print - that was prophetic about today’s progressives. Contemplating with distaste America’s “unregenerate citizens,” he said “the average American individual is morally and intellectually inadequate to a serious and consistent conception of his responsibilities.” Therefore, Croly said, national life should be a “school” taught by the government: “The exigencies of such schooling frequently demand severe coercive measures, but what schooling does not?” Unregenerate Americans would be “saved many costly perversions” if “the official schoolmasters are wise, and the pupils neither truant nor insubordinate.” Subordination is dependency seen from above. Today, it is seen approvingly by progressives imposing, from above, their dependency agenda. There is no choice here; no voucher will enable Americans to escape from enveloping dependency on this “government as school.” The dependency agenda is progressive education for children of all ages, meaning all ages treated as children. bostonherlad.com