‘Tis the season and we probably have all known someone with some of the characteristics of the fictional Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Dickens describes Scrooge as a “squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint…secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster.” That Scrooge changed after visits from the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come to be “as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew.”

Today, we have a real Scrooge and he is the president of the United States. And it is not Christmas that he is bah-ing and humbug-ing. It is our de

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