Corruption Begets Corruption

January 6th, 2010

Arnold Schwarzenegger on the health care bill:

With the nation’s largest state enduring a fiscal crisis, Schwarzenegger said California’s lawmakers should vote against the bill or push to get the Medicaid subsidies that were written into the Senate bill in order to secure Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) as the 60th and passing vote for that chamber’s version of reform.

Shocking. Nelson was bought off for his vote, and now other states want it, too. This is what a larger government role in the economy looks like.