Apologies are owed to drunken sailors everywhere. Never in a thousand years (or should we say a trillion, since that's the new baseline) could they have spent as wildly and irresponsibly as the current US Congress has. Our legislators have an unfair advantage, to be sure, since it's not their own money they're spending; that does tend to loosen the purse strings.
If you can, watch Sen. Jon Kyl's entire 13 minute speech, a devastating summary of the contents of the omnibus appropriations bill just passed by the House and now before the Senate. He will make you will long for responsible leadership. From the Washington Post:
One highlight from Sen. Kyl's speech, at 11:45 on the video:Each of the half-dozen measures is bigger than the one from the year before, and Republicans complained that Democrats are spending recklessly, given the growing federal budget deficit.
"There is no question that the era of big government has returned to Washington, D.C.," said Rep. Jerry Lewis (Calif.), the top Republican on the Appropriations panel. "I cannot and will not support this package of spending bills, because it simply spends too much money and makes a mockery of our legislative process."
I would suggest that President Obama and his White House officials and staff stop trying to blame President Bush for everything. If the President has been in office long enough to get the Nobel Peace Prize, presumably he's been in office long enough to do something about the public debt or unemployment. He's done something about it alright. Unemployment up from 7.6 percent to 10 percent, and the national debt from 10.6 trillion to 12 trillion dollars.
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