Blind Bias

Yesterday, Senate Democrats introduced a bill that would force Congress to pay for the war with a national surtax, instead of merely adding it to the astounding debt that our children have to pay.

Guess what? No mention of this in the Journal (J). NONE! The fiscal cost of the war, estimated to be at $2 TRILLION by Nobel Prize winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, is bankrupting this country.

We are cutting back on prevention and enforcement even as crime hits record increases. We cannot afford proper care for our 82,000+ maimed Iraq war veterans. We are cutting programs to schools and infrastructure. The President will today veto a bill to provide health care to poor CHILDREN!

The value of the dollar is plummeting, reaching record lows. China and the oil countries are getting very nervous about the US paying its debts in dollars, of which they have trillions, while we pursue policies that reduce the value of these dollar holdings.

We are walking a tightrope of economic and social disaster, but the J will not tell the story.

I know that as one reads the J’s constant criticism of Bill Richardson (front page attack of his stance on the “Boy Scouts” yesterday), unceasing support of all things Republican like Sen. Pete Domenici (and, of course, his saintly sister, THE Sister) and his perky protégé, Rep. Heather Wilson, it is easy to lose sight of what is MISSING from Section A?

THEREFORE, when slogging through the J’s daily promotion of the Iraq war and ceaseless idiocy (like today’s front page article about a man who [gasp] tore up a Mexican flag at UNM), think about ALL the costs of this pointless disaster, costs that your kids will incur.