Inaction, again
By Tim Penny
Monday night's State of the Union Address by President Bush and the Democratic Response by Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius were tepid affairs. Sure, the media covered the evening as always and all the pomp and circumstance of government were in place, but it was long on talk and short on substance.
Given the failures of the Bush Administration and Congress to tackle the coming entitlement crisis over the course of the last seven years, it wasn't surprising the president only gave it a passing mention. No one wants to talk about this crisis when the immediate economic downturn is today's redmeat issue.
And so I wasn't surprised to hear a lot about helping all Americans in the short-term, and nothing about the economic damage inflicted on current and future workers by the government's intransigence.
It's enough to make your heart break.
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