Thank you for this thoughtful response - like a breath of fresh air! Among the elite, steeped in Federalist politics, and Liberals (often one and the same), it

Thank you for this thoughtful response - like a breath of fresh air! Among the elite, steeped in Federalist politics, and Liberals (often one and the same), it is almost unthinkable that one would question FDR and his big-government socialist solutions (which some would argue have actually increased the problems they claimed to address). Despair, dependency, and poverty are left in the wake of this "solution." The contradiction of the self-proclaimed "proud, fierce, independent Mountaineer" archetype and the reality of the welfare-dependent and drug addicted (especially Oxycontin) culture that exists there today is shocking to behold. The state is a spectacle of wasted lives, like zoo animals pacing their cage waiting for nothing more than the next scrap of food to be tossed in, the population of the WV shuffles aimlessly to pass the time until the next welfare check. How many lives were ruined by these "gifts"? Uncountable. Indeed - the Federalist solution is often worse than the problem.