May 28, 2010
Politicians sometimes don’t say what they really believe. Therefore it is very impressive that the Washington Post is able to determine their true feelings about the world. An article about the failure of the Senate to approve an extension of unemployment benefits attributed the impasse to: ” a growing concern among Democrats that government spending is out of control.”
It’s remarkable that the Post is able to determine the true concerns of politicians — especially when it is easy to show that these concerns bear no relationship to the underlying reality. The main reason that the government deficit has expanded in the last three years has been due to the economic downturn. If the deficit were smaller right now, then more workers would be unemployed and more of our children would have unemployed parents.
If the Post is right in its assessment of Democrats’ concerns then it owes its readers a good piece on how congressional Democrats became so far removed from reality and how this affects their views of other policies.
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