{"id":43693,"date":"2019-02-22T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-budget-reality-vs-fantasyland\/"},"modified":"2019-02-22T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:00:00","slug":"opinion-budget-reality-vs-fantasyland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-budget-reality-vs-fantasyland\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Budget reality vs. fantasyland"},"content":{"rendered":"
Considering Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s ruinous budget proposal I thought — as I often do — are these Republicans\/conservatives soft in the head? Then I considered how pejorative and negative that is. So I considered the opposite perspective.<\/p>\n
Let me say that Republicans and conservatives are brilliant people (geniuses!) as long as you want to talk about how excusing the wealthy and corporations from paying taxes will somehow create an economic utopia. Or about the U.S. trade deficit with China. Or about “anchor babies” or chain migration. Or Sharia law in California. Or the thousands of Islamic prayer rugs littering the desert on the U.S.-Mexico border. Or how the black helicopters are coming with United Nations troops to take away all the guns. Or the deep state. Or fake news. As long as you want to talk about any of this absurd nonsense, Republicans and conservatives are intellectual giants.<\/p>\n