Of Tax Cuts and Those $10 Million Bat Mitzvahs
I started to feel hysterical. Is this what America is all about? We're in a war and we cut taxes to stimulate the economy -- and it probably did -- and we are having million-dollar parties at home while our soldiers are paid starvation wages to offer up their lives in Iraq? We're in a war and the government cannot afford to pay for adequate training for our soldiers, but the society at home is routinely having million-dollar weddings and bar mitzvahs? Can anyone say "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"?
Can anyone say "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"?
Ben Stein is a lawyer, writer, actor and economist.
with a comedian complex. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
He is a good barometer of the conventional Libertarian/neo-con mind set in the US which is suffering from an identity crisis currently. Policies not Politics ---- Daily Landscape
That, and I have to confess to having been a big fan of Win Ben Stein's Money when I was younger. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
