Sep 27 2005
Fiscal Insanity
Tom Delay of the Republicans is suggesting that any further cuts in the budget would result in cutting to the bone. Yep. That’s your conservative party, settling for astronomic growth including the fattest, pork filled highway bill known to man.
In a roundabout way, Pat Buchanan criticizes the GOP for being the very party it purpoted to “throw out” in 1994. Say what you might about Pat, his numbers tell the tale few politicians bother to note.
His solutions, if anything, are far too modest to save a ship taking as much water as ours.
In the meantime, this does not mean our readers need play along with fiscal insanity of their own. Too many folks spend far more than they should, and they will be left in trouble should this country hit hard economic times. It has happened before, and it will again. That is a certainty. Save more, and invest with the current fiscal insanity in mind. In 1999 I told people that, with the dot-com’s, these would be stories we will tell our grandkids. The dot-com’s may be gone, but much of the fiscal insanity is not.
