While he accurately predicted the political situation in Washington D.C. (how ironic that cesspool of self -importance and arrogance bears his name) , GW would still be shocked at the level to which the treachery of the Clintons has risen.

And not just the Clintons. The importation of an alien voting class to financially enslave taxpaying productive Americans, was evil genius, though not as cruel as the imposition of the minimum wage.

In 1909, a group of firemen working for the railroad were afraid that black men would be hired to take their jobs or work with them. Blacks were anxious to get into the workforce and had to work for a fraction of what whites got for the same work. They came up with the idea of a floor for wages, set higher than blacks could aspire to earn, and the Georgia legislature passed it into law.

That is how the first underclass was created, though not for the purpose of voting. Many of this class were discouraged or prevented from voting. Fast forward to the 1960's...LBJ and the Democrats figure how to snooker them with more and more goodies - adding to Welfare with food stamps, section 8 housing and Medicaid.

Now they have the blue print for power and somewhere in the 1970's they realized that with the Civil Rights laws, some of the underclass was escaping. Once independent of government largesse, now a part of the middle class being taxed to financially underwrite the underclass, it was only a matter of time until this reliable voting bloc dissipated. Enter Cesar Chavez and the illegals.

By the 1980s there are three fallacies that have insinuated themselves into American life -
1. The Minimum Wage is a "living wage"
2. America has an obligation to take every member of every huddled mass yearning to breathe free.
3. Congress has the right to redistribute the wealth of its constituents on whatever object of benevolence they deem fit.

And that is how a great republic begins the road to ruin.

"God loves a cheerful giver". Though Ayn Rand was an atheist, she is correct that charity given at the point of a gun (our welfare system, Obamacare, Section 8 housing, EBT cards/food stamps - any wealth co-opted by government - is not charity given of a free will, and therefore something else entirely. The Bible states that 10%, a tithe, is the proscribed amount for God and good works; yet our voracious government devours much more, in the name of altruism.

Madison also said " I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

He was irritated by a movement to bestow $15,000 of French Immigrants.