[ . . .At home, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Adm. Mike Mullen, said last week that our national debt is the greatest threat to our security, noting that interest payments on the debt will soon rival our annual defense budget.
In the Senate, Obama’s request for another $100 billion for another “temporary,” “emergency,” I-promise-this-is-the-last-time “jobs” bill fell flat. The measure would have sent tens of billions more to state governments to keep saving the jobs already classified as “saved” by the $862 billion stimulus.
Maybe the stimulus trackers should refer to jobs as saved, created or “merely reprieved” from now on. . . ]
