You Know What We Need? A Yacht!

They say that September 11 changed everything. But what about our spending priorities? The spending bill Congress passed over the weekend includes $2 million to re-purchase the USS Sequoia presidential yacht. But it reduces by 90,000 the number of poor college students who can get Pell grants (remember the president bragging about his support for Pell grants during the campaign?).

The official site of the Sequoia says President Hoover promoted his use of the yacht during the Depression to "elevate the spirit of a starving public," but "the public saw Hoover's use of the Sequoia as an example of a President who was out of touch with the needs of a poor populace."

Hmmm. Maybe that explains it.