I never believed that it was responsible to create this new entitlement, but it's even more irresponsible now, given that Hurricane Katrina has created new spending priorities for the federal government,

There are level-headed actors and outlandish actors and financially responsible actors and financially irresponsible actors.

Responsible policy makers do not make irresponsible decisions.

We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

There's no shortage of places where the federal government can tighten its belt to pay the cost of the hurricane recovery effort. Let's face it, after years of uninterrupted growth, the federal government is bloated.