As expected, Bush vowed to pay for Katrina without raising taxes (or, as liberals say, rolling back the tax cuts). Of course, one has to wonder about Bush's definition of taxes; he claimed that the increased gasoline prices were due to taxes.
I guess he's going to pay for Katrina by floating more debt. He just has to break his own record and have even higher deficits. In his canon, debt is something the next guy will have to pay. The higher the debt, the greater confidence the world should have in us, right?
He'll probably also cut some fat out of non-essential areas like the EPA and other government agencies that are not needed and, in fact, impede our economic progress.
The idea of maybe taking some of the pork that was in the highway bill and using it to resurrect New Orleans and environs has occurred to the people in Bozeman, Montana, and the editors of the Wall Street Journal but not to the people running our government. Like we need to pay for a museum of the Packard automobile or for a couple of bridges to nowhere in Alaska and another couple of thousand of bullshit projects in that bill!
Is this the kind of government we want?
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