If We’re Broke, Who Broke Us?
In the amazing statements department of my mind, there is a special place for Representative John Boehner of Ohio. He’s the chairman of the Education and the Workforce Committee in that august body, the House of Representatives.
The name of the committee sounds like something we ought to be aware of, something to keep on the front-burner of political action as American jobs fly out the national window and re-education becomes a primary issue. Not on your life. Particularly, not on John’s watch as chairman.
He’s doing his part to deconstruct anything that might help the less-wealthy, so the most-wealthy can take a pass on present, future and forever-more tax obligations. In his own small way, that means Boehner has come up with $18 billion over five years that can be slashed and burned in both pension protection and student loan programs.
“Listen, we’re broke. Let’s face it,” the defender of fiscal conservatism (after five years of uncontrolled deficit-spending) said yesterday. Over th…