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If those in the media posing as political analysts were as interested in getting the story as they as they are in keeping score and putting events into neat little boxes, they would of course see that the story isn’t the price tag, but the effects the types of spending will have on this country for a generation.

The story isn’t the price tag, but the effects the types of spending will have on this country for a generation.

The toxic combination of deregulation, tax cuts, “opportunity zones,” entrepreneurial subsidies/incentives, and social experiments like vouchers reads like Santa Claus‘ list when he checks it twice for naughty American Enterprise Institute minions. The destruction across the Gulf coupled with Republican control in Washington provides the opportunity of a lifetime to enact so-called “market-based solutions” that thus far haven’t made it out of think tanks and fantasies. Anyone who has watched this administration should know that it’s no coincidence that Rove, a man whose above-the-line purpose is to create a permanent Republican majority and below-the-line goal is to make sure that accountability is reduced to a relic, was chosen to coordinate the reconstruction.