Rescinding all laws regulating business and the elimination of the social safety net has been the goal of conservative reactionaries all along, ever since FDR and LBJ. Reagan gave it it's biggest push, and the Bush administration is continuing with a vengeance. The method the Bush League seems to have adopted is to bankrupt the government to the point where it can't pay for social programs. Which rings a bit hollow when we seem to have a pretty healthy military budget.
It's been said that the measure of a society is how well it treats it's most vulnerable members.
How we doin', folks?
Mid-term election coming up next year and a chance for major regime-change in 2008. Not too early to start working on it.