Government is the problem.
This issue is a test of government's capacity to give its word and to keep it, to act in good faith and to pursue the common good. Of all the sordid legacies of the Clinton presidency, this may indeed be the longest lasting and the most far-reaching. It has now become a party of government largess, and George W. Bush has completely bought into it. This is readily apparent by perusing the 2000 GOP platform and the substance of the Bush program. Where conservatives once planned on abolishing such government wastes as the Department of Energy and the Department of Education, the Bush platform proposes additional federal spending and programs for both departments.