A role for government... what W doesn't understand

W has performed a miracle: hugely increasing government spending while simultaneously destroying govt effectiveness & competence.

The latest:

Inspectors say meat safety is threatened
By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer
Thu Feb 21, 2008
LOS ANGELES - Sometimes, government inspectors responsible for examining slaughterhouse cattle for mad cow disease and other ills are so short-staffed that they find themselves peering down from catwalks at hundreds of animals at once, looking for such telltale signs as droopy ears, stumbling gait and facial paralysis.
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The inspectors told The Associated Press that they fear chronic staff shortages in their ranks are allowing sick cows to get into the nation's food supply, endangering the public. According to USDA's own figures, the inspector ranks nationwide had vacancy rates of 10 percent or more in 2006-07.

W and the rest of the Republican Party are committed to the notion that govt regulation & oversight is always bad, and that industry can and will self-regulate. They are committed to this belief in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, but seem not to suffer any cognitive dissonance.

What is govt's role?

to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice,
insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defense,
promote the general Welfare,
and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity

Has anyone in W's administration ever read the Constitution, the document W took an oath to "preserve, protect and defend"?

Stop the madness.