![]() ![]() Andrew Cuomo just put forward an austerity budget that many school officials say will result in big cuts to academic programs and teaching staff. For proof of that, consider the politics swirling around last week’s Super Bowl in the New York City region. In all, the conservative American Enterprise Institute reports that under the bill, annual subsidies could increase by up to $15 billion.Įven the sports world is plagued by selective deficit disorder. Yet, the same bill increased massive subsidies that disproportionately benefit wealthy farmers and agribusinesses. Citing deficit concerns, House Republicans crafted the bill to include an $8 billion cut to the federal food stamp program. In Washington, for instance, the disorder was on prominent display in Congress’s new farm bill. ![]() It is what I’ve previously called selective deficit disorder - and it was hard to miss in the past few weeks. When it comes to budgetary matters, such a lack of remorse translates into something even worse than cognitive dissonance - something more akin to pathology. In politics, this term is a misnomer, because while many lawmakers, operatives and activists present oxymoronic views, many of them don’t appear to feel any stress about that. “Cognitive dissonance” is the clinical term used to describe stress that arises from holding contradictory beliefs. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |