Commentary
When it comes to money, most politicians are curiously divided in their minds.
On the one hand, they aren’t averse to spending gobs and gobs of it—millions, billions, trillions.
Just think of the obscene $1.7 trillion spending bill that’s just about to come down on your children, their children, yea, even unto the seventh son.
People used to say that Republicans were the party of fiscal restraint.
How many just voted for this orgy of fiscal incontinence, larded as it was with so-called “ear-marks,” a euphemism for pork.
There’s always more, our masters seem to think, where the last batch of fantasy money came from….