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The Evolution Of Interventionism

By fitsnews • on November 23, 2008

For Washington-absorbed “Republicans” like outgoing President George W. Bush, the knee-jerk reaction to our current economic crisis was for government to “do something.”

Which, of course, it did … at an unprecedented, unconstitutional and totally unaccountable level … only to “do” still more as economic conditions steadily deteriorated.

So what’s the plan for President-elect Barack Obama?

Here’s a glimpse from his incoming senior White House advisor, David Axelrod:

“He wants a plan big enough to deal with the large challenges we face. And I think there’s a growing consensus across the spectrum among economists that we’re going to have to do something big,” Axelrod said in a “This Week” interview with George Stephanopoulos.

That’s right, people. No longer content to merely “do something,” the new regime wants to “do something big.”

Well, last time we checked, a $700 billion bailout, $2.3 billion in government “economic relief” and an $11.3 trillion national debt were all pretty effing big.

This is precisely the time we should be pumping money into families and small businesses, not select industries and the same failed institutions which (thanks to government-mandated policies) got us into this whole mess in the first place.

Do something big?

Sheesh … out of the fryin’ pan and into the fire we go.