Austerity. The media keeps using that word.
We do not think it means what they think it means. If it means
anything. In America today austerity means whatever liberals want it to
mean.
Last week the Washington Post reported
that President Obama’s budget request for 2015 “will call for an end to
the era of austerity that has dogged much of his presidency.” Instead,
the Post gleefully explained, the president will focus on “pumping new cash into [programs supported by liberals],” while abandoning his symbolic nod toward reforming the entitlement programs that threaten to bankrupt the country.
In other news, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday announced
the Obama administration’s plans to slash the Army to its smallest size
since 1940, a famously good year in geopolitical history. The move is
perfectly in keeping with the administration’s sophisticated foreign
policy strategy of thinking about what George W. Bush would do, and then
doing the opposite of that. According to the New York Times, the proposal “takes into account the fiscal reality of government austerity.”
We’re confused.
But we’re not surprised. The media has had a tenuous grasp of “austerity” for years. First they bemoaned
the “austerity” imposed by European countries in the wake of the great
recession—typically in the form of major tax increases coupled with
moderate spending reductions. These tax-heavy austerity regimens failed,
the Thought Leaders declared in 2012, as voters in Greece and France
replaced their current leaders with socialist alternatives.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
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