Category: Government Spending
12 Step Program for Spendaholics
Club member Bill King from Pennsylvania sent us the following 12-step program for Spendaholics. Politicians in Congress should admit they have a problem! Admit to yourself and to your constituents that you have been addicted to spending. Admit to yourself and to your constituents that Spendaholism is a major cause of our budget deficits and national debt. […]
“Infrastructure rhetoric is a bridge to nowhere”
Over at Reuters, Media Critic Jack Safer takes the media’s coverage of the "civil engineering-industrial complex" to task: Whenever the phrase “our crumbling infrastructure” passes the lips of a politician or appears in the pages of a newspaper, I change the password on my checking account and move my wallet to the front pocket of […]