Reply #7: Because they didn't care

[TayTay]

Basic conservative philosophy dictates that government is the problem, not the solution. They actively opposed minimum wage hikes, increases to the S-CHIP program and so forth because it was creeping socialism and would only make the American people weak and dependent on the government.

However, once their social class was threatened, they acted with due swiftness to prevent a total collapse of the financial system. People living on subsistence wages are not their concern. Children without good health care should have picked better parents who could afford them. But when the moneyed class got in trouble, well, then they acted to help those they knew and understood.

It was about the money. It is always about the money with these people. The post invasion screw-up of Iraq was about the money. The effort to derail renewable energy projects was about the money. And the failure to deal with the massive economic train wreck that was forecast well in advance was also about the money.

That is all they care about. The money.