Back at the Dawn of the Sixties when the “Great Society” was fresh, the liberals has plans for everything. Keynesian economics was going to put paid to the business cycle. Rehabilitation would cure criminals. Root causes of all kinds of things were going to be uprooted. There was even some talk of a Dept. of Leisure to guide the population in socially productive past-times.

Now these grand visions have been replaced by the insipid thesis that Government is a good thing and there ought to be more of it.