Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Outrageous: There's No Outrage

Where's the Budget Outrage?
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
The Washington Post
...It's hard these days to get the media to pay attention to budgets and their impact on the lives of citizens. Budgets are complicated and easy to spin. It's much easier to generate immense moral outrage over a memoir writer who tells lies.

But long after we've forgotten the name of that writer, a mother on Medicaid will be deciding whether she can afford to take her sick child to see the doctor. Can we please spend at least a tiny bit of our moral outrage on her behalf?

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