No really, he said that yesterday . Nothing like railing against Washington when you and your political party run it! Here is the relevant, gag-inducing paragraph: As we were driving in, I was saying, boy, it’s just good to be back in the Midwest, this is about as close as I’ve been to home in a while. And part of the reason it’s just good to be back is because Washington is a place where tax dollars are often treated like Monopoly money — they’re bartered and traded, and they’re divvied up among lobbyists and special interests, and where waste — even billions of dollars of waste — is accepted as the price of doing business. When we proposed, by the way, those $20 billion in cuts last year, we were ridiculed by the press, said, “Ah, that’s just a spit in the bucket.” Now, I don’t know about here in St. Charles, $20 billion, that’s real money, isn’t it
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Obama: “Washington is a place where tax dollars are often treated like Monopoly money”
Writing at The Daily Beast , Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Edmund Morris responds to the news that President Barack Obama is currently reading one of his books about Theodore Roosevelt. Love him or hate him, there’s no denying that Roosevelt was a man of action and a gifted political operator.
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Mr. President, You’re No Theodore Roosevelt
According to Reason Contributing Editor and certified chart-monster Veronique de Rugy , more than two out of three jobs that Recovery.gov reports as being funded by the stimulus package are through the Department of Education. Her graphic: De Rugy also says that “a third of all union jobs” are now in education
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Stimulus: Hot for Teachers
The right may be backing off its brief romance with Eric Massa, but I’ve decided I like the man. Partly because he’s offering just the right combination of conspiracy theories, gay sex, and left/right convergence to make the world feel like a Gore Vidal novel
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You Can Hang Out With All the Boys
Reason Contributing Editor Tim Cavanaugh will appear on Neil Cavuto’s Fox Business News show today to discuss the fiscal crisis in Greece and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou’s financial life coaching session with President Obama. Starting at 6pm EST on Fox Business Channel
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Reason Around Town: Tim Cavanaugh Goes Greek With the Number One Name In Business…Cavuto! 6pm EST on FBN
From our April issue, Editor in Chief Matt Welch looks at President Barack Obama’s slippery relationship with the truth.
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New at Reason: Matt Welch on Obama’s Habit of Telling Untruths
For those of us who place more trust in free markets than state-directed economies, we must inevitably (and repeatedly) confront the skeptical interlocutor who details the “successes” of Swedish social democracy. “If state intervention into the economy is so bad, high taxes so destructive, then why is Sweden such a success?” It’s an irritatingly simple question with a incredibly complicated answer, though I do recommend pointing out, when the conversation turns to health care and secondary education, that nothing, in a state the confiscates a massive portion of your income, is “free.” But as many have pointed out, during its boom years, Sweden was a pretty free market place; from the 1970s through the 1990s—when taxes and regulation dramatically increased—the economy slowed until it spun out in the early 1990s.
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“So Why Is the Swedish Welfare State So Successful?”
Since he first presented his vision of health care reform, President Obama has addressed the issue of how his plan would affect people’s current coverage with varying degrees of accuracy and honesty.
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If You Like Obama’s Lies About Your Health Care Plan, He Can Keep Lying About Your Health Care Plan
• The White House is reportedly close to reversing itself on whether to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a civilian court.
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Reason Morning Links: Ballots and Bullets Edition
Peter Orszag and Nancy-Ann DeParle, the White House’s budget director and health care point person, respectively, have an op-ed in the Washington Post this morning making one last case that currently proposed health care reform legislation is, in fact, fiscally responsible. They focus on the reform’s provider-side reforms—in particular, the independent Medicare commission that will have the awesome power to make suggestions about how to keep costs down—and the bill’s CBO-certified deficit reduction
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Fiscal Responsibility, A Trillion Dollars Worth
