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Quick hits; Editorial; Beaver County Times; March 31, 2011.
“BAD NEWS FOR GOOD HEALTH” is another in a continuing series of editorials complaining about proposed budget cuts. The Times also used the “penny wise, pound foolish” comment in “Quick hits/POUND FOOLISH” (3/16/11).
As I’ve noted before, despite all the editorials we read professing to abhor deficits and debt, nowhere do editorials seem to find spending cuts of which the Times approves. This is just more evidence the Times merely cries crocodile tears when it “complains” about deficits and debt (here and here). Other than populist ideas like cutting how much the PA General Assembly spends on itself, I can almost guarantee the Times will bash just about any spending cut proposal. If the cut is small, we’ll get the “drop in the bucket” editorial, as we saw in “Quick hits/NUMBERS GAME,” or the “penny wise, pound foolish” editorial, as we have here as in “Quick hits/POUND FOOLISH.”. If the cut is substantive, we’ll get the “draconian” editorial telling us the cut victimizes this or that age, ethnic, race, sex, et cetera group.
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