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sophiaserpentia) wrote2003-01-29 02:09 pm
sophiaserpentia) wrote2003-01-29 02:09 pm
Why we'll never see fiscal responsibility in government.
Pretend you are a member of Congress. You face re-election next year. The President is clamoring for tax cuts, but the budget is already in a deficit. So you must vote to cut benefits for one of the following. Which do you choose?
o Little old ladies on fixed incomes (and lose their votes)
o Medicare benefits for developmentally disabled children (and be depicted in the media as a cad)
o The military (and lose many, many votes)
o Subsidies for [insert industry of your choice] (and lose their campaign contributions)
o I don't like any of these choices. Let's just go with the tax cuts and leave the debt for Generation X to worry about. They're too busy playing with their X-Boxes to notice anyway.
o Little old ladies on fixed incomes (and lose their votes)
o Medicare benefits for developmentally disabled children (and be depicted in the media as a cad)
o The military (and lose many, many votes)
o Subsidies for [insert industry of your choice] (and lose their campaign contributions)
o I don't like any of these choices. Let's just go with the tax cuts and leave the debt for Generation X to worry about. They're too busy playing with their X-Boxes to notice anyway.