“Why doesn’t he have a plan?” Simple: Because he can’t. The minute the President evinces a budget plan, the game is up. No liberal budget will stand up to scrutiny.

◼ The Man Without A Plan - Roger L Simon at Pajamas

There is no money left for deficit spending in our aging society. The welfare state is kaput. It’s gone — probably for generations to come...

Plans are dangerous because someone might scrutinize them. Someone might point out that social security was enacted in 1935 when life expectancy was 61.7 (It is now 77.9 and increasing) and, if it isn’t overhauled, it’s finished. No, you better stay away from these plans. Better to have vague theories and pronouncements. (No, I’m not going to say “hope and change,” but you know I was about to.)

All is not lost, however, in this most unPanglossian world. When you are finally able to shake free of liberal-statist ideas or, as Miniter explains, are forced to abandon them because the state itself is broke (not yet Greece, but close enough), you get a tremendous bonus: the pleasure of self-reliance.

When finally free from the bromides of their ultra-bourgeois ideology, even liberals realize you feel better when you do things for yourself. Most of us know from our own families and friends that the happiest people are those who have made their own way, not those who have had life handed to them, either by inheritance or from the state. Another MUST READ

◼ Why the Democratic Party is Doomed - Richard Miniter at Forbes