Crimes against the unborn
You've probably heard the epithet "Tax-and-Spend Liberals" bandied about, particularly by conservatives who no longer have Communists hiding under their beds to demonize.
Whatever your political stripe, at least there's a certain integrity to taxing and spending, because the pain is being inflicted on the payer at the moment that the public "servant" is making the expenditure. He who spends can then be held accountable on election day.
There's a moral bankruptcy (if you'll pardon the expression) about borrowing and spending, because those who distributed the largess will have gotten the credit for whatever the money did, but be long gone by the time the bill comes due.
Since conservatives refuse to increase taxes on anybody, it appears that borrowing is going to be the only way out of our current predicament. It's curious that these same conservatives who worry so much about the rights of the unborn are not afraid to saddle them with crippling debt that they had nothing to do with.
Of course, the unborn don't vote.
CHAN LOWE has been the Sun Sentinel’s first and only editorial cartoonist for the past twenty-six years. Before that, he worked as cartoonist and writer for the Oklahoma City Times and the Shawnee (OK) News-Star.
Comments
Of course conservatives don't really care about the unborn (or the born either, unless they're white and christian). All they are concerned about is their tax dollars paying for some other person's kids - it's really all about money for them. Love the fetus, hate the child!
Ironic isn't it? With their belief that you can wage war at 10-12 billion a week but not increase taxes, it's the conservatives are the ones who think you can get something for nothing.
Posted by: Groucho Marxist | January 8, 2009 2:36 PM
I've wondered since the Reagan days why no one else has been screaming about the 'borrow against tomorrow & spend today' philosophy that Ronald Reagan espoused. If you really think about it, by funding our conspicuous consumption beyond our needs through loans from China and the rest of the world, the Republicans responsible for this have simply 'auctioned and sold America's assets off' to the rest of the world!
Couldn't be more clearly illustrated than it is with today's mortgage meltdowns. When you take out a mortgage, who REALLY owns that home until it's totally paid off? What a crock of s... Republicans having pushing on America. And now we're paying for their 'buy today and don't worry about tomorrow' approach to economic governance.
Posted by: George Q. Public | January 10, 2009 4:08 PM