President Bush on the Rioting
It’s been said that the South-Central riots represent the failure of the programs begun by LBJ’s Great Society.
You ask which programs. Good question. Because of course no program is particularly bad. What is wrong is the basic assumption that big government can solve our social ills. The federal government is too big, too costly and too far away to solve our problems. As members of the local community we must take responsibility for what we have become. If we really want a workable, lasting solution, the answer will have to come from within.
DOUG HENDRICK
Pasadena
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