Wealth & Money Quote by Paul Weyrich

There is a contained sneer in Weyrich's "still think": a little time bomb that frames his opponents as stubbornly naive, clinging to a childish faith in cash as cure-all. The line is engineered less as policy critique than as a diagnosis of elite psychology. "Policy makers" functions as a stand-in for an entire governing class - technocrats, liberals, bureaucrats - whose instincts, he implies, default to the simplest lever the state can pull: spending. By reducing a broad spectrum of interventions to "hand out more money", he strips them of complexity and dignity, recasting redistribution and social investment as patronizing charity.

The subtext is moral, not merely fiscal. Weyrich is rejecting a worldview in which material resources are the primary bottleneck. His conservatism, rooted in the late-20th-century backlash to Great Society liberalism, treats cultural decay, family breakdown, and civic disintegration as upstream causes that money cannot repair. "The world's problems" deliberately overreaches, inviting the reader to see the folly as global and grandiose - a universal hubris of modern governance.

It's also a political wedge. The sentence is built to rally suspicion toward institutions: if leaders keep repeating the same mistake, maybe it's not a mistake but an ideology, or a self-serving machine that equates compassion with budgets and success with allocations. In one clipped swipe, Weyrich turns spending into a symbol of misplaced faith - not in economics, but in government itself.