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from Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles’s Sketchpad today –<\/p>\n

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At a time when the White House and Homeland Security are yammering about how the TSA needs to squeeze our butts for our own good, the feds are screwing the economy with enough deficit spending to wreck practically everyone’s future. Or at least wreck the future of anyone who is not politically connected…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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