Is unrestrained portraiture spending the primary reason why we have $17T in debt?
Bi-partisan Senate bill introduced to crack down on lavish portrait expenditures
Politicians make a great public show of something that is so inconsequential even mentioning it is a waste of time and insults our intelligence. And in the background they allow the government to go on it's merry way, spending trillions. Wow, we're going to be responsible in our expenditures on portraits. Thank you very frakking much. Now why don't you go and repeal Obamacare? The government spent hundreds of millions of dollars to create a fatally flawed web site that a business could have put into service for less than a tenth the cost. You could buy a lot of portraits for that kind of scratch. How about the $776B in Porkulus spending to satisfy the Keynesian fantasy of kick-starting the economy? We're not getting that back and it did nothing to end the recession. We are $17T in debt, have probably $100T in unfunded liabilities, have to borrow 40 cents on every dollar the federal government spends and are printing billions of dollars a year......and this is the only thing that gets bi-partisan support?
This is a cheap PR gesture to appeal to the low-information voters. They'll see this and think that 'something is being done' to solve our federal spending problem. Does this tactic actually work? Are American voters really this stupid? Who the Hell am I kidding? Of course they are. Obama got elected twice, didn't he? We are doomed.
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