Pinch-faced blue-nosed purity warrior - 2005 edition:
Video: “Katrina breaks my heart...but we must not let Katrina break the bank for our children & grandchildren” Mike Pence-2005 #ImpeachTrump pic.twitter.com/SxmT8NGEA7— Scott Dworkin (@funder) August 29, 2017
It seems like they're just being assholes - and they are - but it goes beyond that.
I think they can't stand the thought that we'll notice how well good old-fashioned Keynesian economics works when you put it in action.
If they go ahead and do the funding for a proper recovery after a natural disaster, then they prove the real value of Direct Spending Stimulus - and they hate having to admit that.
They hate it so much that they'll cut that direct stimulus somewhere else - as a political offset.
So they're not "offsetting the spending" by saving money elsewhere; they're offsetting the benefits in Houston (eg) by creating damage in places like Des Moines or Omaha.
The cynicism required for that kind of move is pretty awful, but what's truly horrifying is knowing so many Americans are so ignorant of the fundamentals of economics that they'll swallow anything these assholes put out.
Education is not optional in a free society that wants to stay that way.
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