The promises of tomorrow that never come. Our schools are not better, they're worse.

Sen. Carl Levin was elected to the Detroit City Council in 1969, and in 1973 became its president. In 1978, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, which he holds onto to this very day, with promises for tomorrow. Any dummy can see (just from photos even) that Detroit continues to grow only in abject failure. Obviously, Levin and his colleagues won't be happy until the whole state is in same dire condition.

Promises of tomorrow are a favorite on a national level as well. An example of late is the health scam. Rush and hurry to make policy changes, yet the the actual coverage doesn't take place until years later, but rush anyway. Rush to make changes that don't address the actual problems, but make these hurried changes anyway, with promises for tomorrow, insisting we must rush today.

The CBO is ignored where it explains actual improvements and lauded far and wide in reference to CBO response to a mythical proposal when the Dems get the slightest indication to their liking.

Democrats pay for their massive SCHIP (another health care scam) expansion with tens of billions of dollars in additional tobacco taxes. I sure hope more people start smoking and less quit. Yet, they try to guilt people into restrictive gov't control for this 'bad' behavior.

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9924/12-18-KeyIssues.pdf

http://www.cbo.gov/search/ce_sitesearch.cfm?criteria=health+care&filt_congress=111&bill=&filt_func=10&filt_committee=any&filt_paygo=0&filt_intergov=0