Thursday, November 12, 2009

Nicholas Kristof...

...has a great column in the NYT today comparing the costs of health care reform and the proposed troop increase in Afghanistan being considered by President Obama. Both would cost Americans about $100 billion a year.

Why are there no tea baggers complaining about the costs of the two wars we are currently fighting? Aren't they adding to the national debt too? Aren't we "saddling our children and grandchildren" with those bills? Where's the outrage here?

Maybe these tea party protests aren't about money after all. Maybe they're about something else entirely.

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