Quote of the day
Absent any deep thoughts, the Republicans are going to complain about waste. The high point of Jindal’s address came when he laced into “wasteful spending” in the stimulus bill, and used as an example a $140 million appropriation for keeping an eye on the volcanoes in places like Alaska, where one is currently rumbling.
I don’t know about you, but my reaction was: Wow, what a great stimulus plan. The most wasteful thing in it is volcano monitoring.
Louisiana has gotten $130 billion in post-Katrina aid. How is it that the stars of the Republican austerity movement come from the states that suck up the most federal money? Taxpayers in New York send way more to Washington than they get back so more can go to places like Alaska and Louisiana. Which is fine, as long as we don’t have to hear their governors bragging about how the folks who elected them want to keep their tax money to themselves. Of course they do! That’s because they’re living off ours.
-Gail Collins
1 comments:
I actaully find it very interesting that Jindal picked "volcano monitoring" to make fun of. Because the potiental of disaster from a volcano is very real in Hawaii, Alaska, and the Pacific coast. Underwater volcanos cause tsunamis. And they are already having serious "Vog" problems in Kona that seem to be getting worse every year. It might be said that making fun of the volcano monitoring spending would be like making fun of spending money to fix levies a few years before Katrina.
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