Monday, August 20, 2007
Spending bad
Unless it's on things we like. It's rather rough ground to stand on.
After Schwartz's introduction, Bates outlined some of the social services that the amount of money the district has paid for the war could have funded.
"There are important programs that would be feasible if we had the money that our district has spent on the war," he said. "We could end homelessness, we could insure everyone, we could have free transportation. The list just goes on and on." And yet somehow, those things just didn't happen in those years before the war. Why is that?
What does Loni Hancock say?
"So often, these numbers are very abstract, but every dollar means a real human being suffers a diminished life," she said. Oh. That's important. I'm sure she carefully considers every dollar spent on social programs, grants, landscaping, and giant tuning forks with the same degree of care.
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