In his new book, "Character, Politics and Responsibility," Mr. Baird argues that in order to afford caring for the needy, liberals will have to challenge "unsustainable entitlements." "I would eliminate the concept of entitlements and move to needs-based social insurance," he says. "The key is to both promote personal responsibility while lowering expenditures by not promising or giving money or other benefits to those who don't need it."An unexpected twist on sustainability for many UUs perhapes, but unsustainable unjust too. We're going to have to sort that out.
A pic of me over at the Chicago News Bench during Right Nation 2010 where a bunch of us Chicago bloggers sat down with Fund. Fund mentioned the increasing velocity of changes in opinion (that's what's new by the way; not incivility) and it leads off his column,
It took Democrats in the House of Representatives 40 years to become out-of-touch enough to get thrown out of office in 1994. It took 12 years for the Republicans who replaced them to abandon their principles and be repudiated in 2006. Now it appears that the current Democratic majority has lost voter confidence in only four years.What's different today is speed. It's going to require quick response and nimble politics. Nimble theology perhaps too...
How did this happen? And what does the increasing speed of voter backlash mean for Republicans who will likely take control next Tuesday?
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