Last night, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., went into enemy territory to promote his new book, Now or Never: Saving American from Economic Collapse, on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Stewart was no fan of the book and after some initial joking about the Republican primary in South Carolina, Stewart got to his main objection to the book:
You Talk about spending. It’s out of control. But a lot of the cuts are just ‘We need to cut the Commerce Department,’ or ‘We need to cut the EPA.’ It doesn’t ever seem to tie spending to value. The issue that I have with people who want to go in and slash the government budget is there seems to be no differentiation between money that is squandered, and investment that creates jobs. Head Start is a program that is, I think, invaluable to kids and by starting them early getting them …ultimately in the long-run, won’t they do better?
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