[Principled]

LOL you never said it. Now that you have, I see you prefer 12-15% unemployment, riots in the streets, an Obama 2nd term, a loss of the House, and a failure to win the Senate.

Maybe you really don't know what would happen to the economy if gov't suddenly quit spending 45% of what it has been.

Think of it like a plane landing - glide in or come straight down.

EV we all wish we weren't spending - but chest pounding isn't helpful and makes you look ignorant. I know you're not, but your emotion is driving your thoughts.

[EternalVigilance]

That's where you're mistaken. There is no "glide" path to the standard of principle. You either adhere to it or you don't.

You either have George Washington's attitude, or you don't.

"It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God."

-- To the Assembled Constitutional Convention, March 25, 1787

[EternalVigilance]

but your emotion is driving your thoughts.

Ah well...

"It is one of the evils, perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments that the People must feel before they will see or act."

-- George Washington, Letter to David Humphreys, March 8, 1787