Recap: The U.S. Government: An insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army; it's as if the Fiscal Commission never happened; and the Defense Department won the budget.
Elsewhere:
1) More on the Defense budget.
2) Why are Pell Grants getting cut?
3) Noam Scheiber's profile of Tim Geithner.
4) "The same way a spork makes an incomplete fork and an ineffectual spoon, this compromise budget provides for both incomplete investment and ineffectual deficit reduction."
5) "If I were the president, my line would be closer to the reverse: I don?t want to cut Social Security benefits for anyone, but if the Republicans want to tempt me into a compromise they?re going to need to make sure that their own core constituency ? people born before 1955 or so ? pay a fair share of the price."
Recipe of the day: Last-minute Valentine's Day menus.
Source: http://feeds.voices.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=81e3a16be56c7fc8a60b37f817d3091c
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