[Stew Padasso]

Did a search and this article did not pull up.

[meenie]

A very good essay by Cavuto. He has his head screwed on straight.

[Snake65]

Go Cavuto!

Signed,
A Reaganesque Republican

[Consort]

The government can't put people to work.

Besides all the federal employees, the government lets out a lot of contracts to private industry. Maybe a plus side to that is contracts can be terminated easier, faster, and cheaper than firing government workers. The people employed by government contractore are........working; they are......employed.

[JSteff]

"Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual." --Thomas Jefferson

[Batrachian]

Sorry, Neil, you're trying to close the barn doors after the horses died and the barn burned down.

Maybe we where better off when the Republicans where the minority. After 1994 the budget has shot up incredibly, and especially so during the Bush Administration. The problem is that now we have both parties interested in buying votes with our tax dollars. At least when we where in the minority we tried to slow down Democrat spending, if for no other reason than to throw a monkey wrench in to their works. Not so now when the parties are outbidding each other on who can "care" for us the most, and the President signing whatever comes to his desk.

I can't think of a single thing (that can be reasonably expected to happen) that can change things now.

A good depression is what we need. Then the tax base will shrink dramatically and so will gov't spending. Don't tell me they can just print money, because a hyperinflated dollar won't buy anything and we'll have budget shrinkage regardless.

I've changed my mind. The real reason we have this problem is not that the parties are trying to buy votes, but that the people want them to.

[The Mayor]

You cannot strengthin the weak by weakening the strong,
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men,
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich,
You cannot lift the wage earner
by pulling down the wage payer,
You cannot keep out of trouble
by spending more than your income,
You cannot futher the brotherhood of man
by inciting class hatreds,
You cannot establish security on borrowed money,
You cannot build character and courage
by taking away a man's initive and independence,
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them
what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

[anymouse]

I'm still waiting for Gillespie to refute these statements. Until he does he can watch GOP donations to flatline.

[Mo1]

I'm not so sure now, not when I hear Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie telling the Manchester, New Hampshire, Union Leader that "the days of Reaganesque Republican railings against the expansion of federal government are over."

He really said that???

[FourPeas]

Cavuto gets it right again, as usual. He has such a distinctive style and delivery, I can actually hear his voice in it.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Well Cavuto, join the growing ranks of Independents. Your eyes are finally open.

[Intolerant in NJ]

The government can't put people to work. A strong, stable and unshackled economy can and will. It's not up to Uncle Sam to fend for our interests. It's up to us. Keep him out. Keep us in. And keep our politicians, Republican and Democrat, accountable not for the bacon they bring home, but precisely for the bacon they do not bring home. We'll all be better for it...four years ago the Republican legislature and Republican Governor Christie Whitman in NJ passed an energy cost reduction act - politicians crowed about how much voters would be saving on their energy bills, and every month electric bills, for example, included a statement to the effect that "you have saved $4.57 this month due to the NJ Energy Control Act (or whatever it was called)". This month there was a new message with those bills, announcing something which the politicians and energy companies hadn't talked much about before - turns out the act was only to be in effect for four years and expired as of the first of August. From here on in, energy costs will be billed at their actual prices which have escalated significantly - moreover energy companies will be permitted to recoup all costs they incurred but couldn't bill for while the act was in force, plus interest - something like one billion dollars which will be extracted from energy users over the next few years - residential energy bills will immediately be rising by about 6% monthly to make up for all the goodies consumers supposedly were receiving under the expired act.....

There are no free lunches and those who think there are usually end up paying for them. Cavuto is right on - whenever govenment starts passing laws to enforce some procrustean scheme to improve the economic status of voters, things are bound to deteriorate - Republicans used to know better than to try this stuff, but they're showing themselves to be as bad as the 'rats by now.....

[luckydevi]

Good piece

[lainde]

Cavuto bump!

[StriperSniper]

But when you have Republicans saying they have no problem with a fat government and a less efficient government, count me very worried about our government, and our nation.

Good to see someone in the media understand just how serious this is.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

I ran across this great quote by Bruce Bartlett (a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis)

"In the old days, miners brought canaries down into the tunnels to detect methane. The birds were more sensitive to the deadly gas and worked as an early warning system. When they died, it was time to get out. For conservatives, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, is like a canary. When he starts supporting their initiatives, they should get out.... Therefore, it is significant when Mr. Kennedy supports a Republican initiative, as he has done in the case of the prescription drug bill working its way through Congress."

[Mr. Mojo]

And count me very worried when I hear President Bush tell a Labor Day audience that he's looking for a jobs czar

Whenever I see the word "czar" in connection to a gov't program, I see "failure."