Big government deja vu

Boston Globe
by Jeff Jacoby

09/28/05

It is 1965. ... In the America receding behind you, the president is Lyndon Johnson. The landslide winner of last year's election, he is forging ahead with his 'War on Poverty' and 'Great Society,' spending billions of taxpayer dollars and creating vast new entitlement programs. His fellow Democrats control Congress and easily brush aside GOP complaints about creeping socialism and reckless federal spending. ... The time machine slows to a halt. You climb out and set off to explore 2005. Many things have changed, you discover. ... But one thing that seems familiar is budgetary politics. One political party is still running the show in Washington and still spending as mindlessly as ever. ... The incumbent in the White House, a Texan named Bush, burns through money even more extravagantly than the Texan named Johnson you left behind in 1964...

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