I think the “Big Beautiful Bill” is a disgrace.
It’s not that there is nothing that is good in it–there is much that is. It’s just that it doesn’t address the most pressing issues. It is the legislative equivalent of only ever serving your kids candy and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. They’ll be happy in the moment, but over time, they become fat, self-indulgent, and unhealthy.
America has become fat, self-indulgent, and suffers from the fiscal equivalent of worsening metabolic syndrome. I get why it has gotten that way. I am fat, more than a little self-indulgent, and I am fighting metabolic syndrome, even though I DO eat my vegetables and am eating healthier these days.
It’s just easier to put off that needed exercise until mañana. Looking like RFK takes work.
Republicans are supposed to be the Party of planning and self-restraint, Democrats the Party…
