Lest anyone say that the current administration has failed to take the lead, we should keep in mind that the year 2004 currently ranks number one, according to the comptroller general, among the fiscally most reckless years in U.S. history. (Did one of them free spending libruls sneak into the White House when the president was away chasing ponies on his ranch?)
And while we're cutting corners on our funding of Amtrak and the U.S. infrastructure, we should reflect on the fact that by the year 2050, we're projected to pay out $285,000,000,000 in disability payments. (And if my discussions with Gulf War vets is representative, this money won't even begin to compensate the actually losses sustained by vets.)
Of course, our tax money does do some positive things like aid other countries. (With a whopping 25% of it going to "help" countries by supplying or repairing their weapons.)
Some of the other 75% goes to things like drug elimination. In Afghanistan, we spent $780, 000,000 getting rid of poppies. (It's estimated that it would cost $600,000,000 to simply buy the entire annual poppy crop.)
But at least the newly freed countries are learning the values of American plutocracy. (Bribes paid to Russian government plutocrats rose 800% since 2001 and now represent 250% of the nation's federal revenues.)
Source: The current edition of Harper's
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