That is an excellent point.
Just think of the angst if we ever attempt to return to that common sense era.
There would be lots of blood in the streets.
Just think of the angst if we ever attempt to return to that common sense era.
There would be lots of blood in the streets.
In the last two years i've gotten heavily into the Civil War debate on these threads. What propelled me into the debate was learning some information about where the tax money to fund the government came from in 1860. (70-80% came from the South)
I've started to look at the issue as money flowing this way or that, and I started to notice a pattern. A lot of Washington Policies tend to make money flow in certain directions, and pretty much the same directions it has been flowing towards since the 1860s.
I almost got woke up back in 1995 when the Newly elected Republican Congress was trying to cut government spending and balance the budget. Judging by how the media treated them, you would have thought they were trying to decapitate puppies or something.
I said to myself at the time, "Why would any reasonable person be against the government balancing it's budget?"
I didn't realize at the time that there might have been people who make a lot of money from freewheeling government spending, and that such people might have a lot of influence in the media, and therefore perhaps this could explain why the media was so hostile to the idea of balancing the budget back in 1995?
I now simply look at everything as a money flow problem. Find out where the money is going, and *THAT* is your real opposition to balancing the Federal budget.