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I imagine a lot are looking at things as if it was the 1950s and wondering why we can't get by without all the programs that have been added since then. Some might be looking even farther back and wondering why we have any social programs at all since people survived before they were invented (New Deal era stuff....the programs that were suppose to be temporary...yet are still in place nearly 70 years later).
Probably because the type of work Americans do has changed. The increase of enviromental laws has driven a lot of manufacturing out entirely (it is cheaper to polute someone elses country than to make the work clean, since sometimes you really can't make it clean). Labor costs make it more profitable to make thinks in other countries even with the cost of shipping the items several times over. America is suppose to be a "service economy". My question is...what is that suppose to mean, and how can everyone be employed in such a model?
Supporters of Republican Party tend to be conservative, and want things to be like they were when they remember America being powerful and people being at work and their not seemingly like there was a need for any "liberal" programs. Sometimes because they are unaware of what these older liberal programs did back in the 1950s, or because they don't see that program as being "liberal".
Others see the "liberal" programs as failures because they either don't do enough, or are too easily abused. They aren't opposed to the program's goals, just that they seem the program as not being fuctional. Or they are opposed to paying for something they either aren't going to use, or (more often the case) paying for someone to abuse the program. That is what usually gets to them the most. People working the system. Conservatives hate the idea of someone using their money for something they either didn't earn, or worse, legally stole by working the system.
Similar arguements come out when the politicans call for "new laws" or, "let's regulate something differently than it is already regulated"....when they are already laws for those thing on the books...just they aren't enforced effectively. The idea is that there are too many laws (and lawyers some would say) in government, and not being effective because most are not enforced, ignored, or sometimes forgotten. It is their job to make law...but how much law do we need? Do we have enough laws yet?
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