Legislative idiocy: Using a 35 year-old video game analogy

Taking oversimplification to a whole new level:

For many of the Republicans who control the state legislature, the reason for the change is simple: budget predictability.

"For years and years and years, Medicaid has been considered the budget Pac-Man that eats up all the dollars that people in this chamber would like to see spent on many, many other things," Rep. Bert Jones said during the North Carolina House's debate of the bill last month. Gov. Pat McCrory signed the overhaul into law on Sept. 23.

*sigh* What's even worse, this article was in the Kitsap Sun, a Washington (state) newspaper that gets dropped on my sister's driveway every day. I'm thinking about calling her, just to get the inevitable embarrassing yet accurate jokes out of the way.

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