Now, in Washington, when you increase spending, say, 5%, Democrats will call that a cut. If the budget said we were going to go up 8%, but we only go up 5%, they call that a cut. We’ve covered this lie for years.
That’s what they said about the school lunch program back in 1995, when they were accusing Republicans of starving kids and so forth. The school lunch program actually went up, but it didn’t go up as much as they wanted it to go up, so the Democrats called it a cut.
Well, the Senate got a pay raise this week. The Senate got a 3.1% raise, but lo and behold Tom Daschle says it’s not a raise! He calls it “a cost of living increase.” Can you believe this? It was an increase to keep these impoverished senators up with inflation, but it’s not a raise. Oh, no. Not a raise.
Tom, you should have called this a pay cut if you want to be consistent with the way you look at the budget. I’d have loved to see Greta’s reaction to that. That’s what you say anytime a budget item goes up X percent of what it should have gone up. The Senate just took a pay cut. That’s how you need to look at it to understand how these guys operate.