Monday, October 04, 2004
Priorities, priorites
THE WRONG PRIORITY
Bush signed another tax cut today.
This is a President and a Party whose priorities are completely screwed up. We're at war. We're not funding homeland security enough to get our shipping containers checked and our air marshall program working on even a moderate fraction of flights. The Coast Guard can't get what it needs to get itself fully up to par. We've got loose nuclear material in the former Soviet Union that can get into the hands of terrorists.
But what is Bush's priority? Tax cuts.
Bush can't possibly pay for all of the basic homeland security, let alone Iraq and Afghanistan. We're already in hock up to our neck. The long term damage to the economy with such debt is frightening. And the short and long term damage to homeland security due to the lack of urgency by Republicans is simply wreckless.
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