The state is not your friend
I get the editorial cartoons sent to me every morning. I need something to piss me off when I get up, I guess. They never cease to amaze me with their inanity.
The past several days, every one of them that touches on the plight of New Orleans focuses exclusively on the federal government. Why?
Two reasons, I suspect. First is the standard leftist (and the vast majority of editorial writers and editorial cartoonists are leftists) belief in the primacy of the federal government. They love centralization, and the federal government is their shrine. Therefore, the federal government should be the first — perhaps the only — responder to all emergencies.
The other is worse, I think. The federal government has for so long promised to fix everything that people in general now expect it. And then, as they always have (and always shall) they don’t deliver. It’s certainly not for lack of trying, or for lack of desire. It’s just that government is inherently incompetent to solve the problems of the individual.