E.J. Dionne Jr. compares the penny-pinching ways of anti-health reformers with their profligacy in matters of war in one of the more pointed sentences you’ll find in an op-ed these days:
It’s also enraging that those who insist on offsetting every penny spent to expand health coverage would never ask the Congressional Budget Office to score the costs of McChrystal’s strategy. For the uninsured, they propose fiscal prudence. For war, they offer profligacy.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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Both sides are transparent as the emperor's new clothes. We need to FRIP them all. Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians! Every time. Every election. Every race. No exceptions. No one is \”too good\” to be replaced. Call it \”Voter Enforced Term Limits\”!