The left thinks it will capitalize on the lessons of Katrina? Really?
You don’t need to read the whole thing, just this:
The Best-Laid Plan: Too Bad It Flopped
David Brooks, NY Times
I’m willing to bet that leftist concepts like Minority Business Enterprise laws and other reverse-discriminatory set-asides will slow Gulf Coast recovery in proportion to the size of each local government’s budget. Never has there been a more obvious event horizon that portends true harm to come because of affirmative action.
The Best-Laid Plan: Too Bad It Flopped
David Brooks, NY Times
That “limited but energetic government” line paraphrases George Washington’s comments at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Some ideals spring eternal. “Progressives,” who abhor anything that cannot be made malleable to their ever-shifting morally-relative whims, will remain unable to admit that post-Katrina problems are their own creation.
"So of course we need limited but energetic government. But liberals who think this disaster is going to set off a progressive revival need to explain how a comprehensive governmental failure is going to restore America's faith in big government."
I’m willing to bet that leftist concepts like Minority Business Enterprise laws and other reverse-discriminatory set-asides will slow Gulf Coast recovery in proportion to the size of each local government’s budget. Never has there been a more obvious event horizon that portends true harm to come because of affirmative action.
