Posted by
Midwestern Farmer on Thursday, January 31, 2008 5:01:12 PM
Everyone in this campaign has picked up on the “Change” bandwagon. Unfortunately, no one is a true advocate of change. The Democrats talk of change, but what they really want is a return to the old ways of big government, big spending and big time failures to affect any real change.
1960’s era liberal great society programs failed to improve the lives of the poor. In fact, the plight of the poor had started to improve before such programs were put in place. After a short-lived improvement, long-term failure set in. Today, most inner cities are dangerous pools of decay featuring failed schools, and lost hopes. Generational poverty has created a class that, unless real change no party is willing to commit to happens, has no hope, no future, and no chance of living the American Dream.
Many Urban Affairs academics advocate a greater centralized, European style government solution to inner city problems. However, it is those very types of programs implemented in the 1960’s that has led to this new crisis in urban America.
Unfortunately, it seems that the GOP may also be caught in the web of “change” with the apparent rise of McCain. Rather than looking toward small government, low taxes and decentralization, the electorate seems committed to move the party towards the populist, European, ”take care of me” mentality. If this continues, January 20, 2009 may come to known as the day America went back to the future.
More later