We may need to clean house in Washington. The politicians, on both sides of the aisle, appear to be ready to restore the spending eliminated in the sequester. How can they seriously deal with our budget and think of increasing spending?
We are already on a financial time bomb. There is no way to diffuse it. It is only a matter of time before our financial system collapses. The politicians only hope that it will not happen on their watch. Thus the perpetual kicking of the can down the road. Addressing the real issue will be messy and politically unpopular.
Our other problem is the growing government. Weekly we hear about more government intrusion in our lives. Government interference may seem benign now, but the power of government can easily be turned for evil. We have to stop government growth now. It only grows because we let it.
A whole new slate of legislators might be the answer.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Questions worth asking
Sometimes the most obvious questions never get asked. Though many people are wondering about something, they never get up the nerve to ask. After all, look at all the competent, knowledgeable people who are just going along with it -- whatever it is.
Few of us are willing to be the child who notes that the emperor is naked. Today, it seems that the emperor has a huge walk-in closet full of thousands of outfits made of the same special material. I'm sure I've got plenty of blind spots, but I want to ask the penetrating questions, especially about our culture and government.
One might naively ask, for example, How are we going to pay the U.S. national debt? I think we are pushing $14 trillion now. It seems to increase about a trillion every month. Maybe a better question is, Do we ever intend to pay our national debt?
If we are ever going to begin to pay the debt, we will eventually have to stop spending more than we take in. Even if we never ran another deficit, we would have a crushing burden in interest payments alone. But eliminating deficits must come before we can start paying off the debt. I can only think of one year when the government had a budget surplus. Wonder where that money went...
Another question is, What will happen if we decide not to pay our debt? That's a scary thought, but something we have to consider. Would it be easier to default on the debt or pay it? What are the consequences of these choices?
Meanwhile, we are funding studies of drunken mice. Really.
Few of us are willing to be the child who notes that the emperor is naked. Today, it seems that the emperor has a huge walk-in closet full of thousands of outfits made of the same special material. I'm sure I've got plenty of blind spots, but I want to ask the penetrating questions, especially about our culture and government.
One might naively ask, for example, How are we going to pay the U.S. national debt? I think we are pushing $14 trillion now. It seems to increase about a trillion every month. Maybe a better question is, Do we ever intend to pay our national debt?
If we are ever going to begin to pay the debt, we will eventually have to stop spending more than we take in. Even if we never ran another deficit, we would have a crushing burden in interest payments alone. But eliminating deficits must come before we can start paying off the debt. I can only think of one year when the government had a budget surplus. Wonder where that money went...
Another question is, What will happen if we decide not to pay our debt? That's a scary thought, but something we have to consider. Would it be easier to default on the debt or pay it? What are the consequences of these choices?
Meanwhile, we are funding studies of drunken mice. Really.
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