You can’t really parody this exchange between an NYT interviewer and Connie Mack, former Republican senator, and president Bush’s point-man on tax reform. The dialogue is about spending and taxes:
NYT: Well, the U.S. government has to get money from somewhere. As a two-term former Republican senator from Florida, where do you suggest we get money from?
Mack: What money?
The money to run this country.
We’ll borrow it.
I never understand where all this money comes from.
When the president says we need another $200 billion for Katrina repairs, does he just go and borrow it from the Saudis? In a sense, we do. Maybe the Chinese.
Is that fair to our children? If we keep borrowing at this level, won’t the Arabs or the Chinese eventually own this country?
I am not worried about that. We are a huge country producing enormous assets day in and day out. We have great strength, and we have always adjusted to difficulties that faced us, and we will continue to do so.
This is what we’re dealing with. Essentially: fuck the next generation. And they call that conservatism these days.
The Dish 