Malnurishment is not a ‘diet’

And now the proposition is given the acid test. Is the government truly bloated with useless, wasteful programs that should be put on low-money diets? Or is the government we have actually needed and relatively well run? It’s the question asked during the election. And it’s the basic issue the Republicans have tried to beat Democrats over the head with since FDR. Republican-types (think Charles Krauthammer) now argue that the Democrats and their leech followers will only be cutting services that hurt while protecting those relatives, friends and voters they got jobs and money for. Something of a fallback position. But if the sequester shows little fat and much tissue, most of the social reforms of the 20th century will have been shown justified. Not to Charles, of course.

Doug Grandpre

Lake Stevens