In this column Will maintains that what motivates the Democrats is their desire to expand dependency upon government. Everything the president and his congressional allies have been doing is consistent with that.
Consider the financial markets. “Soon,” Will points out, “the two most important financial decisions most families make — to get a mortgage and a college tuition loan — will almost always be transactions with the government.”
The auto industry? The administration funnels federal money into GM and Chrysler to keep them afloat, while exerting extra-legal influence to stiff secured Chrysler creditors in favor of the UAW. The UAW, Will writes, “relishes dependency on government as an alternative to economic realism.”
Education? The tiny DC voucher program had to go to appease teachers unions, which can’t abide any competition and want as many parents as possible to be dependent on government schooling.
Excellent, revealing column, Read the whole thing.
