I was listening to John McCain talk on NPR this evening, and I have to admit that he knows what to say to get my attention. However, the chasm between his talk and action is huge. Robert Siegel failed to ask obvious follow-up questions, perhaps out of fear of being too confrontational.
If elected president in November, McCain says, he’ll approve an additional $3 billion in taxes over 10 years. He also vows to immediately slash $100 billion in “wasteful” government spending — $65 billion from the federal budget baseline and $35 billion that was approved in spending bills over the past two years.
“The problem is that we’ve presided over a 40 percent increase in the budget over the last eight years,” McCain says, “and that’s got to be brought under control.”
And how, pray tell, are you planning to do that by spending $341.4 million per day keeping the Army in Iraq for the next 100 years?
Here’s a trick. Multiply 341,400,000 by 7. That’s 2,389,800,000. Then multiply that by a short month. That’s 66,914,400,000. Oh, look, I just saved $67 billion!