A Deep Chasm

As the Democrats rally around tax cheat New York Democrat Representative Charles Rangle and Republicans in South Carolina are mortified by their adulterer in chief Governor Mark Sanford, there is a great temptation to tell the two major national political parties "a pox on both your houses", but the stakes are simply too high for the disgusted voter to disengage. The lapses in ethics and personal moral conduct certainly insult the dignity of office but are a pale side issue when contrasted with the great gap that exists between the rhetoric of the political class, their campaign promises versus the action they take once in office. Even a Saturday Night Live comedy sketch lampooned Obama's failure to keep his campaign commitments made largely to placate his leftist base. Even when promises are kept, they are often to the detriment to the people that they were intended to help. Take the War on Poverty that America's citizenry lost. The fight really took hold with LBJ's Guns and Butter and was only reformed slightly for the better with Reagan and his welfare to work and the Bill Clinton's welfare reform to which he was dragged kicking and screaming by the 1994 gained Republican majority in the House and additional GOP gains in the Senate. Obama though wants to roll the clock back to the Johnson era, albeit with vastly more inflation adjusted dollars being directed to form an ever growing dependency class. Already states are breaking under the weight of their welfare roles and the burden of providing services, including expensive medical care to illegal aliens (to whom the Obama administration has thrown in the towel in hopes of having them be permanent members of an underclass of no-I.D. check Democrat voters). Instead of fostering keeping families together and a strong work ethic, Democrats with some liberal Republican backing are swelling the ranks of the dole whose parasites will soon outnumber the producers in society. This is a disaster and will spell the end of America as we have known her.