Check out the story on Fox News. Isn't it great how the Associated Press manages to spin the potential return of $70 billion to the people who earned it as a "cost"? Please tell me that Americans aren't dumb enough to buy that load of fertilizer!
Better still, the Democrats call it a "significant error" (Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota) and a "big mistake" (Sen. Max Baucus of Montana), while the ranking Republicans hem and haw and mutter under their breath. What are they all afraid of? Americans with money? Goodness gracious, we certainly wouldn't want those moronic American citizens to have use of their own money...after all, the government knows best how to spend it, don't they?
When will the constituents of these pickpockets and their ilk get off of their welfare state backsides and vote the bums out of office? Even the pols who talk about "smaller government" don't seem--for the most part--to be able to put our money where their mouth is. Call your Congressional representatives and ask them how they're cutting costs in order to help balance the federal budget. Ask them to justify, according to the powers delegated to them by the Constitution, the way they're spending your money. You might be shocked to learn just how irrrelevant the Constitution has become in the halls of government these days!
Posted by jon at May 21, 2003 08:23 AM