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Hold on a Minute There George Will

George Will has an op-ed in the Washington Post titled “Running On Ideas. Will’s piece looks at Rep. Jim DeMint (R), who will be running to sit down in Sen. Fritz Hollings’ (D) overheated chair.

DeMint speaks a good line or two,

"America is in, he says, “an eleventh-hour crisis” of democracy because it recently reached a point where a majority are “dependent on the federal government for their health care, education, income or retirement.” Tax reforms, from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, have removed many Americans from the income tax rolls: “Today, the majority of Americans can vote themselves more generous government benefits at little or no cost to themselves.” DeMint asks: “How can any free nation survive when a majority of its citizens, now dependent on government services, no longer have the incentive to restrain the growth of government?"

which I can appreciate, because what he says is true. But what George Will states, as he encourages the sheep into the polling pens of DeMint, negates the whole idea DeMint propounds.

"In the context of a welfare state devoted to assuaging the insecurities and augmenting the competencies of its citizens, conservatism’s challenge is to use government—collective action—to promote individualism."

I don’t think that is the approach to take, George. Collective action cannot promote individualism.

Via PrestoPundit.

Posted by on 03/28 at 07:25 AM