Shift away?
At this point, we need to break it's back!
Dyer makes several good points, most importantly that it has taken 30 years of overconsumption and overspending along with abandonment of traditional principles (1975 was the first year that spending on entitlement programs exceeded that for constitutionally-mandated programs like national defense). 1975 was 36 years ago!
It will take more than one budget to get out out of this mess. Many of us will be looking at the underneath side of daisy petals before it happens. It can happen, but it will be a journey of many steps, of which last Friday was only the first.
Those who bash Boenher for not trying get more in this first budget should tell all of us “how much is enough”? And by whose standard? If you wanted $100B, why not $200B? Take a look at Rand Pauls proposed budget that does away with four non-mandated bureaucracies (Depts of Education, Energy, HUD, and Commerce. Is that enough?
I’m sick of self-appointed experts who refuse to accept the inevitable fact that we are finally moving in the right direction at least, and had we not elected the people we did last November, we would not even be having this conversation.
Yes, we against insane government spending got more than the Democrats got in the shutdown/2011 budget skirmish.
Now, we move to the next battle, the debt ceiling rise. It will go up some to get us to the end if this year, but any rise has to be paired with spending and borrowing cuts in the near future and down the road.
That means we have to explain and sell the Ryan plan for the 2012 budget and coming years. We are broke, but too many Americans do not understand this or ar so hooked on the free lunch, they reject the facts. Ryan’s plan has to be seen as the start of our salvation and worth enduring some hardship to get to a better future.
The Democrats are saying to drunks at a party all is well and promising to use America’s credit card to call for more ice, booze and mixers. That mindset has to be overcome.