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John Kennedy Questions Government Spending On Migrants And Insect Powder For Kids

Senator John Kennedy set the debate on fire by claiming, as he said on-the-record, strange spending priorities beyond free education and...

X/@SenJohnKennedy Senator John Kennedy set the debate on fire by claiming, as he said on-the-record, strange spending priorities beyond free education and healthcare for migrants in Ecuador and Venezuela and insect powder for kids in Madagascar. It carries the folksy delivery that Senator Kennedy is famous for: rhetorical questions, exaggerated facial expressions and theatrics to deconstruct complex budgetary concepts for the common man, surely to stir up indignation in some of these choices made at the micro budget line item level. So, with federal budget debates looming, you can bet more will be heard about circumcision in Zambia, insect powder in Madagascar, and all the other bizarre and inappropriate instances that make government expenditure so ill-conceived and contentious.

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