Sometimes Will is not that good to read, but most times he is. This time, he's hitting his peak, and thanks, George.
"He also promised to cut $800 billion from 10 years of war spending that will end in two years, which is like "cutting" $800 billion by deciding not to build a ski resort on Mars.
"Year after year, the Democratic-controlled Senate, ignoring the law, refuses to pass budgets. Year after year, Washington makes big government cheap by charging Americans only $6 for every $10 of government services, borrowing the difference. And the biggest purchaser of U.S. government debt is not China but . . . the U.S. government, largely through the Federal Reserve. Yet what supposedly is horrifying is a sequester that would cut less than 3 percent of federal spending over the next decade?
"Or horrible Grover Norquist. Although a surfeit of numbers are being bandied, a pertinent one is missing — the number of legislators who have pledged to Norquist not to raise taxes. The number is: Zero. All pledges have been to voters. Progressives lament the public's distrust of the political class while urging many members of it to treat their promises as pie crusts."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-politicians-who-bewitch-our-intelligence-with-language/2012/12/05/649000a0-3e48-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html
"He also promised to cut $800 billion from 10 years of war spending that will end in two years, which is like "cutting" $800 billion by deciding not to build a ski resort on Mars.
"Year after year, the Democratic-controlled Senate, ignoring the law, refuses to pass budgets. Year after year, Washington makes big government cheap by charging Americans only $6 for every $10 of government services, borrowing the difference. And the biggest purchaser of U.S. government debt is not China but . . . the U.S. government, largely through the Federal Reserve. Yet what supposedly is horrifying is a sequester that would cut less than 3 percent of federal spending over the next decade?
"Or horrible Grover Norquist. Although a surfeit of numbers are being bandied, a pertinent one is missing — the number of legislators who have pledged to Norquist not to raise taxes. The number is: Zero. All pledges have been to voters. Progressives lament the public's distrust of the political class while urging many members of it to treat their promises as pie crusts."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-politicians-who-bewitch-our-intelligence-with-language/2012/12/05/649000a0-3e48-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html
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