Blinded by altruism

Two things come to mind in the wake of the Republicans' Obamacare fiasco:

• No. 1: An American patriot who died four years ago at age 87 told me shortly before he left this world that in all of his adult life — consider that 70 years — nothing has changed in Washington, D.C., and with the federal government ... nothing, no matter which party ruled.

In all that time, he said, the federal government has continued to grow; continued to intrude more and more into his and other people's lives; and continued to take more of his money.