<p>“Sources in the House of Representatives said it likely would be mid-week before Republican leaders know whether they have enough support for spending reductions, including cuts in health programs for the elderly and poor, that go beyond the $35 billion sketched out last spring”.</p>
<p>Yes, let’s kick the crap out the poor and elderly.</p>
<p>“Congress is also debating a Republican-backed plan for more tax cuts, mostly for the wealthy”.</p>
<p>We all know the wealthy are the most oppressed people in our capitalist “in danger of going communist” country.</p>
<p>“Record debt is washing over the
Treasury Department, recently breaching the $8 trillion mark in money owed to foreign governments, private investors and the
Social Security retirement fund used to finance deficit-spending”.</p>
<p>“Republicans, who also control the White House, have now presided over an increase in $2 trillion to the national debt over four years or so, despite contending that they are the only U.S. political party that practices fiscal discipline”.</p>
<p>So, yesterday, that darling of the liberals Charles Schumer went on national tv and said that even if all the rationales for the War had been lies, or deceptions, or misstatements of fact, he would have voted for it anyway. It was one of the most disgusting displays of Democratic Party duplicity (and complicity) I had seen in…hours.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, not a single Democrat has outlined a plan to house the 700,000 Katrina evacuees. This is supposed to be a political party?</p>
<p>Richard Cowan is just resentful that despite having spent his entire adult life on his quixotic libertarian/libertine crusade we still don’t have a Cabinet-level Department of Free Marijuana Distribution. A mind is a terrible thing to waste on weed (Cowan’s, I mean). But, glad you enjoyed his article.
<a href=“http://www.marijuananews.com/[/url]”>http://www.marijuananews.com/</a></p>
<p>Sorry, that was too snarky of me. The guy can continue to smoke pot every day of his life, for all I care. But I do think that any $35-50 Billion spending cuts should look broadly to cut excess across all programs, including “entitlements.” Cowan’s throwing in “including cuts in health programs for the elderly and the poor” was just obnoxious. There’s waste and abuse in Medicaid, just as there is in everything else. The need for big spending in the aftermath of this hurricane season is sparking a healthy debate about where to get the money, without raising taxes on the entities that drive the economy. It’s definitely a silver lining, because the president needs to use his veto pen on spending for the first time.</p>
<p>It’s the ownership society. Too bad we’re buying on credit.</p>
<p>I will say this, though. Between his fiscal policies and the Miers nomination, Bush is finally living up to his billing as the great unifier. Now, liberals AND conservatives are ****ed off.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say small minority. Probably 60% or so of adults have smoked weed at one point in there lives. As for regular marijuana smokers, its probably in the 10%-20% range.</p>