I have three or four correspondents who will write to scold me for linking to this Matt Taibbi piece because he name-calls and talks dirty but the guy makes a strong, important point: The protests about government spending were negligible when we were shovelling billions into corporate coffers or rebuilding the power grid in Bagdad. They didn't even complain when huge sums designated for the Iraq War completely disappeared. It only became the kind of outrage where you have to take to the street with signs when we started spending money on the infrastructure of this country.