I'm neoconic, but not sanguine on the republic's prospects of surviving out-of-control vote-buying and the accelerating push to welfare state status. FDR is not my hero.
Nor mine. I put that SOB at the bottom of the list and perhaps even off the list.
No neocon advocates new social entitlements.
However we do view things like prescription drugs as improvements and not new giveaways.
This is really where we split from the paleos and the reason we argue so much.
I find the debate good for the process and personally I felt that we needed to find more savings before funding drugs.
Medicare is indeed not functioning as it should and drugs are a huge part of medicine today. I see it as indispensable.
Tort reform is now on the top of my list of things to do in order to lower costs in medicine. It is critical that we tell the trial lawyers to stuff it.
It may take making them second class citizens to do it. We need more lawyer jokes.