JONAH GOLDBERG IS WRONG
Over at National Review Online, Jonah Goldberg often beats the drum about how there are no slippery slopes. Often, that's right as illustrated by Goldberg's favorite example -- Japanese internment camps during WWII did not send us down the slippery slope to gassing them. But the slide toward socialism and the redistribution of wealth from those with ability to those with needs that started with the New Deal and accelerated with the Great Society is clearly continuing apace. Yesterday, we were asked to pay for retirement for those who not only couldn't afford it, but those who didn't plan for it and squandered their money. Today, we are being asked to pay for medications for those who not only cannot afford them, but also for those who would rather keep their cable television than buy health insurance or Lipitor. And there is no principled political party in Washington opposed to this continued slouch toward socialism, just an argument over whether government will directly fund the give away, or bully private industry into doing it.