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Paul Krugman's New York Times column this morning is called "Katrina All the Time," the idea being that what Krugman regards as the Bush administration's incompetent, stingy and corrupt response to the disaster is emblematic of the way it addresses all human needs. But I see another underlying meaning in the column's title. It points to the way that Krugman and other liberals paint every human need as a disaster requiring government intervention. Krugman says "if you?re uninsured every illness is a catastrophe, your own private Katrina." And he complains that the latest data shows that 2006 "brought only a slight decline in the poverty rate and a modest rise in median income." For him, just because things haven't gotten better enough, that's a "devastating indictment of the administration?s policies." If your agenda is to expand the size and scope of government, what better way than to treat everything as an utter disaster?

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