Wednesday, March 11, 2009
'The bill represents a bonanza for federal agencies'
Of course it does -- and Obama will sign it with its 8,570 earmarks worth $7.7 billion. ... The horror of maintaining spending at its current 2008 levels!
Update -- Switching financial-crisis gears, John notes:
Of course it does -- and Obama will sign it with its 8,570 earmarks worth $7.7 billion. ... The horror of maintaining spending at its current 2008 levels!
Update -- Switching financial-crisis gears, John notes:
It would be nice if someone -- anyone -- who contributed to this epic disaster manned up and said: "I am at least partially to blame and for that I am deeply apologetic." Fat chance of that ever happening. The dreary dance of blame-shifting continues today in the Wall Street Journal, with a particularly irritating op-ed piece by Alan Greenspan.Unfortunately, Michael Barone partakes again in the dreary dance of blame-shifting. ... My questions: If it's all the government's fault, then what genius employers hired the Domino's pizza deliverymen as call-center mortgage brokers? What super-duper genius institutions hired the genius employers who hired the Domino's pizza deliverymen as call-center mortgage brokers? What rocket-scientist Wall Street geniuses bought up the garbage they encouraged from folks all the way down to Domino's pizza deliverymen acting as call-center mortgage brokers?
