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sion stifling revenues, we are currently back in a cycle of “spend more, take in less”, a pattern that created the enormous national debt that is crippling to our future.
It is a fact that Mr. Cantor supported a tax relief package that delivered 38% of its cuts to the top 1% of American taxpayers.
It is also a fact that he supported a stimulus package that would have gifted Enron with $254 million. Now, I don’t want to sound like I’m indulging in “class warfare,” but does this sound fair to you?
Up in the hollow, there is a simpler economy: “If it doesn’t rain, you can’t make hay. If you can’t make hay, you can’t feed your cows. If you can’t feed vour cows, you can’t feed your family.”
The Congressional budget writers could learn a lot from that.
Campaign financing
It should come as no surprise that two Republicans, Senator John McCain of Arizona . and Representative Christopher Shays of Connecticut, led the fight for campaign finance reform.
In his sixth annual message to Congress in 1906. the great Republican President Theodore Roosevelt said, “Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly"
Bully for Teddy! As you may know, our campaign does not accept PAC contributions. Which leads us to our next little item:
In case you missed it. Congressman Cantor has returned the PAC contributions he had received from Enron and Arthur Andersen, after refusing to do so for several months, saying the donations were not “relevant.’’
But now — saying that “recent developments’’ had changed his mind — Cantor has, well, recanted. "Keeping the money would be a dis- ., traction,” said his adviser, Ray Allen.
Hmmmmm. Now 1 wonder, what possible “recent development” could have affected his thinking? Well, until the next distraction, keep on the sunny side.
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