MaxSpeak: Bothered And Bewildered

One of the strangest things about the Katrina tragedy is the way people talk about poverty.

Conservatives talk as if the welfare system had never been reformed to their thunderous approval in 1996. We get the same old canards about underclass behavior and single moms, typified by the George (S)Will quotes I posted last week.

Liberals talk as if the reform had never happened, or they had never acceded to the reform and kept rolling backwards with talk about it not being as bad as we thought it would be, yadda yadda yadda.