way to go, solomon

The number one job of a government is to pave roads. I mean that both literally and metaphorically. The number two job of a government is to create policy to address systemic social inequities and create a safety net for the disadvantaged.

There is no job number three.

When you give a hundred bucks a month to families for each child under six, you're helping them out - to be sure. When you do so instead of ensuring that the choice of adequate day care is there for every family regardless of whether they need it or not, that there is what you call social engineering, pard'ner. And we got governments out of that business. Or thought we did. When we, you know, triumphed over fascism.