OT: OFF BY AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE
I’m not a pundit blogger and none of you knows my position on Iraq so this is just an observation. Bob Herbert needs to keep his facts straight:
But even as the president was speaking, word was coming out that the Transportation Security Administration is trying to cut back its air marshals program to save money. The war in Iraq is costing scores of billions of dollars a month, and the president’s tax cuts have grown so large they’re casting shadows over generations to come. But we can’t afford to fully fund a program to protect American airline passengers.
“Scores of billions” would be a minimum of $40B a month. Last I heard, it’s closer to $4B. Hey, it’s just a zero.