Second Quote of the Day

Victor Davis Hanson, one of the right's more prolific writers, here commenting for National Review Online about something most people don't have any understanding of until the need arises:

Entire industries exist to figure out how to sign parents’ assets away to their heirs so that the instantly impoverished mom and pop can receive free government nursing-home care.

An unintended consequence of most women going to work. When they did not, they cared for aged parents who had become bed-ridden or senile. Now we discover that nursing home care - the alternative - can be more expensive per month than many women earn in that same month.

This amazing article, by historian Hanson, ends with this quote about the nation's fate:

In other words, we know that we are doomed on the present course; we oppose those who agree and take action to avert it; and yet we might some day praise them for saving us after we did all we could to destroy them.
One wonders whether we have any leaders who wish to save the country even if it means endangering themselves.

Hanson is amazing. This is another COTTonLINE must read - two in one day.