That’s how a friend described the current doings in D.C. It’s hard to even fathom what these elected officials are proposing to do with our hard-earned, promptly and honestly paid (ahem) tax dollars. And we’re supposed to feel good that the Senate “only” wants to spend $827 billion instead of over $900 billion — so much for Obama’s campaign promises to trim wasteful government spending. And so much for my own state’s Arlen Specter — Mike and I both e-mailed him our disgust last night. Not that he’ll ever see it — we’ll get a canned e-mail back from some staffer full of reasons why the bill is the best thing since sliced bread for our “troubled economy.”
Oh, but then again, why worry? Won’t there be plenty of government handouts available? That’ll surely stimulate something, right?
Giving money and power to government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
~ P. J. O’Rourke
Writing by Ear 