Why I Love Barney Frank*

In describing the defense budget, the distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts correctly describes the folks pushing for more defense spending, who normally oppose all spending because of deficit issues, as thinking thinking that, "the Pentagon is funded with Monopoly money that somehow doesn’t count.

It gets better when he talks about F-22 supporters:

These arguments will come from the very people who denied that the economic recovery plan created any jobs. We have a very odd economic philosophy in Washington: It’s called weaponized Keynesianism. It is the view that the government does not create jobs when it funds the building of bridges or important research or retrains workers, but when it builds airplanes that are never going to be used in combat, that is of course economic salvation.

Heh.

Here is a recording of the interview.


^*In a 110% purely heterosexual kind of way, of course, as the General would say.