BILL MINOR: Conservative Mississippi never turns down a government handout
JACKSON – Right-wingers who are self-proclaimed “constitutional conservatives” (whatever that is) have polluted the public dialogue with slogans like “taking back our country” and branding every governmental reform from health care to auto industry bailouts as “socialism.”
All of this prattle made me look inward at major governmental reforms in Mississippi which over the years could have been branded as socialism because they came about as the result of state governmental intervention into the private enterprise sector.
The irony of it is that Mississippi, whose people considers themselves the paragon of private enterprise, have accepted state government’s intervention into free enterprise without raising an eyebrow.
nems360.com
12/9/10
Magnolia Tribune
