WSJ: No One is Gutting the Safety Net

Big if true.

Who understands this stuff, anyway?

Not me, that's for sure.

I spend way too much time reading about it, and I have no idea who's right.

   I think we tend to fall back on our general political worldviews in such cases. And currently I'm inclined to think that the Republicans are more reasonable about...just about everything. The monstrous spike in Medicaid expenditures since '19 seems unlikely to be explained by a spike in genuine need...or so I guess.

   The Dems have repeatedly shown themselves to be driven by excess and misplaced sympathy--sympathy for illegal aliens despite the costs to the nation and its citizens; sympathy with "trans" "kids" despite the costs to girls' athletics, non-"trans" children swept up in the hysteria, and society at large; sympathy with criminals despite the cost to law-abiding citizens... We know that their general orientation disposes them to prefer giving out unwarranted benefits rather than to drawing lines and saying no sometimes.

   Anyway, I suppose I think: let's try it the Republicans' way for awhile.

   See what happens.