Posted on 06/29/2009 6:49:53 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
So, as a common citizen, what do you do when you are out of money and your credit is used up? Well, you go without don't you? Like my Mother always used to say, "What are you gonna do, buy something with your good looks?"
Well, we are all getting woefully used to feeling that government can't seem to understand that fraud, waste, and overspending is not a good idea. In fact, we are starting to realize that government is incapable of fiscal responsibility.
But, even as we realize this truth, politicians at least pretend that they are interested in fiscal responsibility. They pretend at laws that supposedly force government into a balanced budget, they make claims that they are fully funding their new causes, and they act as if they are concerned about the budget.
Well, apparently California Budget Conference Committee Chairman Noreen Evans (D, Santa Rosa) has decided to cast away the mask of fiscal responsibility. She has publicly announced that she believes that government does not have to "live within our means." In fact, it is a duty to spend on just any old thing that government wants to spend on...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
NJ is in a massive budget crisis. When a state senator recommended to the dem caucus that the state start to charge prisoners a fee for cable tv and other amenities, they laughed at him - literally.
The GOP needs to start taking Democrat statements like this and use them nationally or statewide. This is much like Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky from Chicago who screeched how health care reform will kill the private sector...to the cheers and delight of the liberal dunces in her audience.
Well, they’re just giving words to what their actions have proved, aren’t they? I find it as no surprise that they would think like this.
Slavery by impossible debt is still slavery.
Wasn’t it Dick Cheney who said deficits don’t matter?
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