War and taxpayers’ money
Today’s paper states that Liddy Dole voted in favor of a bill that includes a $250,000 grant for UNCW’s School of Nursing. Her esteemed colleague, Sen. Richard Burr, however, voted against the bill because it contained $9 billion over what the president originally requested. A Burr spokesman said one of his boss’s “responsibilities and highest priorities includes protecting taxpayer money and ensuring our government spends wisely and follows a fiscally sound budget.”
I’ll remember that the next time Burr votes in favor of more “emergency funding” for the war in Iraq. President Bush’s latest request is for a mere $46 billion, bringing the 2008 price tag for the war on terror close to $200 billion (that’s nearly $4 billion A WEEK). Now that’s what I call protecting taxpayer money, especially in the face of overwhelming anti-war sentiment among our citizens.
This just underlines why it’s so hard to understand politicians based on their support of lack of support for bills — bills are such orgies of “rider” subsidies!
1/4M for a local nursing program is nothing compared to the real meat of this bill, which is its unchecked endorsement of the war, but Dole rushes to describe her support for a stack as tall as a shoe-box in terms of what it gives to a popular, incontrovertibly good academic program.
Bumper sticker recently seen in Wilmington.
“The Rapture is not an exit strategy.”
Yes. I kind of like the one that reads — and I’ve seen it around here a lot too — “In case of rapture, this car will be unmanned.” Makes me think of that great movie Rapture, by the way, and cultish “pearl” with which everyone was so anxious to be carried away.
This bumper sticker about being unmanned post-Rapture is — or *was* — one of the more innocuous of its kind, I thought. Though like anything it quickly gets tired out with widespread use. And then it’s revealed as having an element of, what?, smug self-congratulation, I guess. Things have facets.