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Well, and the "beast" in this case is the social safety net. What this doctrine is trying to cut away is social spending--programs designed to impact the quality of people's lives. Little things like welfare and medicare. Fundamentally, the right believes that people should only have their lives bettered if they have the opportunity for that provided them by the marketplace, and then do good, honest, moral work to earn it.
IMO it was the right way to think when we were 13 little states on the edge of a vast, unexploited continent, but it doesn't address today's economic realities. Most of the people who are recipients of federal social program dollars have no way out of their situations on their own. See pre-Katrina New Orleans for a fine example of that.
It appears that even the most compassionate of conservative doesn't much care about that, though. Better to run us trillions of dollars into debt so that we're forced to stop helping people.
I hope Jenna and Barbara's kids learn to speak Chinese!
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