The Government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. – Ronald Reagan
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. – Milton Friedman
While our "leaders" debate the equivalent of pulling all police officers out of the South Central neighborhood of LA, or Eight Mile Road in Detroit, (we're making more enemies every day in Michigan) the bigger issue continues to fester. We are growing the government at an unprecedented and truly alarming rate.
The president points to the growing economy, as if your finding a job were a good excuse to run your credit cards over the top. You could easily just follow the money here, and see the problem, but I worry more about the size of the resulting government. Fiscal responsibility gets only lip service from this administration. GWB has never met a spending bill he didn't like. Tom DeLay couldn't find any fat in the budget either. Well, Tom, the rest of us see fat when we see it.
George's tax cuts have been on the right side of the Laffer curve, but that will change, one way or another.
Could it be that Mike Pence is the unwavering voice of fiscal reason? The real Republican Revolution has perhaps not yet begun?
All I know is we have more government than we want today, and much less than we paid for.
1 comment:
The only, and I mean the ONLY, good thing about this situation is that we DON'T get all the government we pay for. In this one case, government inefficiency actually is a good thing, just think how much more they could interfere in our lives if they were more efficient!
Still and all, we are rapidly getting more government than we can afford, particularly in "entitlement" programs. (How in the Hell did giving something away ever turn into something they are "entitled" to?)
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