Annie was being sarcastic (as usual).

Forget the cartoon of a taxpayer having money removed from his wallet by the government to put in someone else's pocket. Most of that money is being borrowed from countries like China and Saudi Arabia.

The guy that wrote the e-mail reminds me of alot of traditional conservative Republicans. While I am for small government and disciplined spending, there are racist overtones to what he is saying (but not burning crosses in someone's front yard while dressed in bedsheets racism). He wants to focus on New Orleans reconstruction and breaks it down to how much per person that is equal to. But the fact is that money is going to corporations like Halliburton. They rake in profits and over fist while hiring illegal immigrants a minimum wage. New Orleans is dwarked by the bloated Pentagon budget. In 2001, CBS published a story about a missing $1.3 trillion at the Pentagon. Rumsfeld has a press conference and basically said they had no way to account for it - oopsie.

If you are going to be concerned about disciplines spending, there should be no sacred cows that escape scrutiny. The Pentagon richly deserves getting scrutinied and the people not doing the accounting need to get fired.

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