My colleague at The Foundation for Economic Education, Sheldon Richman, has written a piece on the Katrina disaster that gets right to the heart of the problem. You can read it here.
The point, of course, is that reliance on government is foolish and sometimes even fatal. The advocates of yet bigger government are attempting to depict this as proof that they’re right and we need the state more than ever. If the intellectual and PR battle goes against them, people might start scoffing at all kinds of things the government screws up.
We are at a “teachable moment.”
