Archive for December, 2008
Time for a new surge–in Patriotism
We joke about political pork. We laugh at the Defense Department paying $600 for a toilet seat. We tolerate the confused craziness of the farm subsidy program. Forty years ago, former Illinois Republican Senator Everett Dirksen said, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you are talking about real money.” Adjusting for inflation, “A trillion here, a trillion there . . .”
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