WASHINGTON'S NEW STINGINESS? -- BY TAD DeHAVEN, CATO@LIBERTY

That’s the title of a column in the December issue of Governing authored by Donald Kettl, the dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. According to Kettl, the federal government’s new “stinginess” is being directed toward state and local governments. Stinginess? Didn’t he hear about Obama’s $800 billion state bail-out/stimulus bill?

The following are some selected statements from Kettl that left me dumbfounded:

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