Our house of freedom has seen better days
Ben Stein, monotonic actor and economist, calls today a bleak day:
This has been a punch in the solar plexus to the kind of responsible, far-seeing, mature government processes that are needed to protect America. This is more than the pork barrel. This is a coup for the constituencies of the party in power and against the idea of a responsible government itself. A bleak day.
Some of the evidence he cites is truly disturbing:
Close to half goes to entities that sponsor or employ or both members of the Service Employees International Union, federal, state, and municipal employee unions, or other Democrat-controlled unions.
This is a coup-de-tat using financial recklessness as the gun.
Public sector unions are a menace to Democracy. They need to be marginalized.