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Infomaniac: WeBlog
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Not the party I knew
A new report from the Cato Institute, The Grand Old Spending Party: How Republicans Became Big Spenders, discusses the increase in military and domestic spending under the Bush administration. According to Cato,
The summary page leads to the full report in PDF. So is Cato just another left, liberal think tank, you ask? Not hardly. According to their Web page, the Cato Institute is for "consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace." Not exactly your radical liberal agenda. Or....is it? These once-Republican values seem to have crossed the line to the other side. Cato's 'About' link says they like the term 'market liberals' to describe their philosophy. And, on that Social Security problem: A new report from the Century Foundation highlights A new plan to fix Social Security, by Robert M. Ball, who ran the Social Security Administration for many years. According to the summary, the plan's five simple steps would solve the funding problem for the next 75 years. (I'm impressed. Bob Ball was a classmate of my father's (Wesleyan U, 1935) and my Dad mentioned him often. Dad died 12 years ago at 80, he's be proud to know Ball is still around and doing good work.) (Both of these reports via Docuticker.) posted by liz at 1:42 PM 
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