Irony, thy name is Government

By: Frederick (Diary)  |  February 8th at 09:07 PM  | 

You can always trust the government to pull an Orwell and regularly use words that mean the opposite of their political meaning.  Take “Non-Discretionary Spending,” for example.  What is, by its nature, the most discretionary part of our budget, social programs like Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, are called “non-discretionary.”  The money that funds what our government is meant to do, that is, the courts, regulatory | Read More »