We can’t afford health care.
We can’t afford education.
We can’t afford infrastructure.
We can’t afford clean air.
We can’t afford uncontaminated food.
Why? Maybe Boeing overcharging the military by 177,000% might have something to do with it.
Yeah, that’s right: One hundred and seventy-seven thousand percent.
Newt Gingrich is telling himself anyone who will listen that Obama is such a bad president that the GOP will capture the African-American vote in 2012.
But conservative commentator David Frum asks: “… how would a platform of tighter money, big benefit cuts, and upper-income tax cuts appeal to hard-pressed voters, African-Americans being some of the hardest-pressed of all?”
Turns out, Florida governor Rick Scott’s unpopularity is making voters think twice about whether to support a Republican for the presidency in 2012.
The electoral map just keeps trending bluer … .
Since funding for education is feeling the budget hatchet these days more than usual, Michigan school superintendent Nathan Bootz wrote to the state’s governor requesting that his school be converted into a prison, where the average per-person expenditure is 4-6 times higher.
“According to a retired brigadier general who served as Gen. Petraeus’ chief logistician in Iraq, the Department of Defense spends $20 billion air conditioning tents and temporary structures for the military. That’s more than NASA’s entire $19 billion annual budget.”
WTF?!?
The insanity is documented here.
