Will Wilkinson is feeling snarky:
We'd very much like to increase nutritional assistance for impoverished children. In fact, we'd love to. What could be better? But, you see, we have promised very large, richly-deserved pensions to some very important people very dear to our hearts, and, to put it frankly, money these days is, well, tight. I know. It's very dispiriting. If only the selfish rich bastards would pay their fair share of taxes! But, no. No. Whatever happened to the idea that we're in it together? Huh? Whatever happened to love for our fellow man? It's sad. Anyway, we are so sorry the bastards have chosen to steal from the mouths of hungry children. I wish we could do something. I really wish we could.
Of course! As we all know, we shouldn't heap scorn on the wealthy recipients of decades of income gains, who enjoy historically low tax rates and an expensive bundle of federal benefits. No, we should set our sites on unions, public workers, and pensioners. After all, what right do they have to middle-class salaries, and an old age guarantee of modest income security? They should suffer with the rest of us! By which I mean the income-secure upper classes, who will sacrifice nothing as we "fix the deficit" on the backs of working people and the elderly. That'll show those workers for having the audacity to live through a financial collapse engineered by the nation's wealthiest people, and responsible for most state budget shortfalls!
Or something.
