Reply #11: McCain - and Dowd - is engaging in the same old bullshit tactics the GOP always does.

[baldguy]

First off - none of these programs costs over $2 million. Cutting them out of a $400 billion bill won't change it one bit. And secondly - if they McCain really had questions about the need for any of these programs - he's a fucking US Senator. All he has to do is ask and he'll have people falling all over themselves to explain them to him.

But that's not his objective of course. The GOP broke the economy and they want to keep it broken. What the RW wants to do - with the help of lapdogs like Maureen Dowd - is to undermine the people's confidence in the ability of fed govt to do anything revitalize the economy & alleviate the problems the public faces.

The fact is each one of those programs can be expected to return many times more to the economy than the small amount invested - yes, including the measly $200k for tattoo removal. Only fools would question their need.