The LA Times has a nice report on how the Bush administration is looking at effective ways to help the poor people displaced by Katrina, then rejecting those methods in favor of less effective ones. The reason for deliberately choosing ineffective measures is that the White House fears that implementing effective measures would make it politically easier in the future to get the government to do stuff to help poor people. And the crazy thing about it is that they’re not really crazy!
Sam Rosenfeld has more.
Well, see, now I feel a lot better. They’re not stupid - just venal, dogmatic and amoral.
Glad that’s settled.
President Bait and Switch
Hmph. Pokey, those big Media bloggers.