Desiring Machine

The Senate passed a 2.8 trillion budget. The Democrats held back except for Mary L. Landrieu who understandably broke ranks to bring home some much needed Levee repair bucks for New Orleans. 10 billion to be precise. In the process the Senate broke their self imposed spending limits. This is all Republicans folks. I have said it before, Bush turned me into a fiscal conservative.

Here is some break down to put it in perspective. The current US population is 295,734,134. Let’s do some elementary math.

2,800,000,000,000 ÷ 295,734,134 = 9468 dollars for every man woman and child in the country this year. That is a lot. Where is this money going? Oh yeah there is this pesky WMD-hunt-cum-War-on-Terror-cum-elaborate-Civil-War-reenactment-with-suicide-bombers that we having going on in Iraq.

I am glad that the Democrats exercised discipline and voted against this thing. Let the Republicans draw a tighter noose around their own necks. I smell landslide in the fall.

You can argue till the cows come home on tax cuts and balanced budgets, deficits. But the Republicans decided to spend $10,000 of your money (or more likely your children’s money) this year. Let it not be said that Republicans are the party of fiscal restraint. They belly up to the trough with the best of them. It all boils down to budgetary priorities. And I would rather keep people off the streets, well educated, and healthy rather than bomb, shoot and maim brown skinned scape goats in the desert sands far away who just happen to be standing on a bunch of crude oil that we don’t want to get into the hands of the Chinese.