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children, the
poor and the
elderly
W hy, it w as probably harm ing the
w ar effort. I don't know w hich w ar—
terror, drugs, A fghanistan — pick
one.
So, in a heart-w arm ing exam ple o f
b ip a rtisa n sh ip , R ep u b lica n s an d
D em ocrats jo in e d hands to get the
FA A back up to strength and the
R epublic w as saved.
R epublicans, o f course, could not
resist using the occasion to take a
w hack at P resident B arack O bam a.
"W hy is P resident O bam a u n ­
necessarily delaying y o u r flight?"
tw eeted H ouse m ajority lead er E ric
C antor. (R epublicans are sham eless
in blam ing O bam a for things that are
their fault.)
In truth, the R epublicans foisted
the farce o f this seq u ester on the
nation in 2011. T hat w as w hen they
dem anded it in return for agreeing to
raise the debt ceiling, w hich is n o th ­
ing m ore than agreeing to pay the
bills they'd already run up. The law
further requires that agencies, the
FA A included, cut all their program s
equally on a percentage basis, m ak ­
ing it im possible to m ove funds from
n o n essen tial fu n ctio n s to e sse n ­
tial. T hat w ould be too sensible.
T h e id e a w as th a t th is a rra n g e ­
m e n t w as su ch a m o n u m e n ta lly
stu p id id e a an d w o u ld be so h a rm ­
ful to th e e c o n o m y th a t th e p a rtie s
D onald K aul
I k n e w th a t
C o n g ress w ould
com e to its senses
eventually, that it
w ould realize that
th e h a m -h a n d ed
budget cuts ordered by the so-called
"sequester" w eren't going to w ork,
that som e g o v ern m en t functions
w ere too im portant to be cut.
A nd I was right, kind of.
A few days ago it restored funds
to the Federal A viation A d m in istra­
tion. T here had been big lines and
flight delays at airports around the
country, you see, and w e can't have
that.
C o n g re ssp e rso n s h a v e to get
back to their districts every Friday
so they can beg for m oney and
co rp o rate executives have to get to
their appointm ents on tim e so they'll
have the m oney to pay o ff the beg­
gars. It's called politics.
T he w ay things w ere go in g at
airports, how ever, was b eyond in­
convenient; it w as a national crisis. w o u ld be fo rc e d to c o m p ro m ise
by
o n a re a l b u d g e t.
sch o o l b re a k fa s ts , so m e tim e s th e
T hat badly u n d erestim ated the o n ly d e c e n t m e a l p o o r k id s g e t on
m onum ental stupidity o f the co n ­ a g iv e n d a y , is b e in g c u t by $25
servatives in C ongress. T h ey d e­ million.
cided th at w e didn't need a real b u d ­
M y city o f A nn A rb o r is a high-
get since we don't need go v ern m en t tax G ranola liberal place that's proud
anyw ay, so the seq u ester w as ju s t o f its superb schools. A nd o u r local
fine as it w as. A nd they allo w ed the o fficials c o n sid e re d d o in g aw ay
cuts to go forw ard.
w ith 10 o r m o re o f the reading spe­
U n til th e y c a v e d o n a ir tra ffic . cialists in the lo w er grades before
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to fu rth e r c h e rry -p ic k in g am o n g o th er staff m em b ers into the latest
g o v e rn m e n t p ro g ra m s. Y ou can budget proposal.
c o u n t o n th e w e ll-lo b b ie d p ro ­
A ll in the n am e o f d eficit red u c­
g ra m s g e ttin g e x c e p tio n s . (T h e tion.
A g ric u ltu re D e p a rtm e n t h a s a l­
T he seq u ester is the econom ic
re a d y g o tte n m o n e y to sta y th e eq uivalent o f the Iraq W ar: a self-
fu rlo u g h s o f m e a t in s p e c to rs .)
m utilating b lu n d er undertaken for
It stin k s.
ideological reasons, rather than any
T h e g re a t v ic tim s o f th is s e ­ that m ake sense.
q u e ste r w ill be o u r c h ild re n , th e
T h e id e a o f im p r o v in g th e
u n e m p lo y e d , th e p o o r an d th e e ld ­ eco n o m y d u rin g a re c essio n by
e rly — all g ro u p s w ith fe e b le lo b ­ cutting the b u d g et harkens back to
b ies o r n o lo b b ie s at all.
the days o f C alvin C oolidge and
T h e g o v e rn m e n t h a d to c u t H erbert H oover. It d id n 't w ork then;
h o u sin g v o u c h ers to 1 4 0 ,0 0 0 lo w - it doesn't w ork now.
in c o m e fa m ilie s , p e o p le a lre a d y
If you don't believe m e, ask the
o n th e c u s p o f h o m e le s s n e s s . E uropean nations that have been
S e v e n ty th o u s a n d p re s c h o o le rs trying to deal w ith their punk eco n o ­
are g o in g to be tu rn e d a w ay fro m m ies by en fo rcin g austerity m ea­
H ead S ta rt p ro g ra m s. U n e m p lo y ­ sures on its E uro zone m em bers with
m e n t b e n e f its , th e o n ly th in g dism al results.
sta n d in g b e tw e e n th e fa m ilie s o f
D id I m en tio n that this stinks? It
m illio n s o f jo b le s s w o rk e rs and really does.
h u n g e r, are b e in g c u t 11 p e rc e n t.
OtherWords columnist Donald
A p ro g ra m th a t p ro v id e s fre e Kaul lives in Ann Arbor, Mich.