Ed, despite the wave of justifiable criticism over the United States Senate’s use of bribes to get the 60 votes necessary to pass Obama’s health care bill, politicians have been getting away with this technique on all sorts of pet projects and programs for many years. Consider beach replenishment, which takes sand from the bottom of the ocean and places it on our beaches, only to have mother nature wash it back into the ocean. Bureaucrats buy votes by pandering to property owners at the shore, ignoring that their approach is not a rational approach to this enduring reality.

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Does the bill for the beach thing get into the trillions? —Ed. Note