Democrats Hope Voters Learn to Like Big Initiatives - WSJ.com

AN INDUCED ECONOMIC DROUGHT: Democrats Hope Voters Learn to Like Big Initiatives - WSJ.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that the country doesn't have the money to devote to all these cherished needs of the 'entitled' constituents.

It's sort of like the UAW and GM.

No one has ever said that the benefits the UAW won for its members weren't 'nice' or that they were 'unliked' (as with some of the Health Care Plan of Obama).

But, what is, was and continues to be said - evidenced by the bankruptcy and downsizing of GM and its huge taxpayer bailout - is that these benefits were 'unaffordable'.

Thus, if the goal of the country is create jobs for the modern world-changing economy, then that is where everything else starts and springs from. Sort of like a typical couple starting out in life. You can do so on welfare or you can do so with a job. And, hopefully a job full of promise and advancement.

What the Democrats have done is continue (as the UAW) to think that they can take, take and take and that it never has to end. Paying for all of the benefits is someone else's job.

The 'real' unemployment rate (of over 16%, may 20%) would seem to suggest that they have totally failed. And, like the farmer who stands their without irrigation, just hoping the rains will come, the Democrats don't realize (and can't even conceive of) how their legislation is drying up the economic landscape.

(What's the Democratic economic drought like? Can we say the housing bubble!)