Cavuto: Stop Rushing the Spending
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}I don't know about you but I’ve never done anything right...in a rush.
Any term paper I was scrambling to get done the night before...
Any test on a book I just opened hours before...
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Forget it.
Disaster.
I learned early. Be early. Be ready.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Because do anything too fast, you just fall on your...hiney.
It's human nature.
That's what happens with rush jobs. They become snow jobs.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The healthcare law's a good example.
You remember, Nancy Pelosi’s, "We have to pass the bill, so you can find out what's in it."
We later did.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Not good.
Because that's the difference with Congress rushing things and you and me rushing things.
Congress wastes a lot more money.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Our money.
But here's the thing...They keep wasting it. They keep refusing to learn from it.
These next 24 hours are a perfect example.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Politicians scrambling to spend billions of dollars by tomorrow... Because if they don't, the billions go.
The deadline's up.
The spigot's closed...
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}So they're practically shoveling the billions out.
Even if it means shoveling stuff that hasn't exactly panned out.
Green energy stuff, Solyndra-like stuff...
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Fear not the half billion dollar lost there... Much more promising bets here.
But they don't know... And when I ask the politicians scrambling to spend that dough, they can't even say...
So we proceed on a hunch, and some luck, in a rush.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}...even in the face of history that is quite clear.
Stimulus checks to convicts in prison.
And corpses... In the ground.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Medicare prescriptions for patients long gone...
Some written by doctors long dead.
Yet the waste, and the rush, alive and well.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}You'd think we'd learn that money spent quickly is rarely spent wisely.
But then again this is Washington...
Where every day is like a Toyota-thon.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Without the brakes...
Especially...
Without the brakes.