I saw Ron Paul on the television this morning. He said we are spending a trillion dollars to defend an empire.
I am thinking that our President is going to have to lead on this issue.
Maybe we can refrain from making it more bad than it is.
I was very disappointed that the President's stimulus bill, the $862 billion, or the new one, the $270 billion stimulus ...
Medicare and Social Security are on an insolvency trajectory that is very real.
But, of course, you cannot simultaneously use that money to fund a new program and also extend the life of Medicare.
I have used the public debt simply because nobody disputed that that was a bottom-line debt figure.
I believe we have a culture, a history, a heritage of limited government and we have accelerated our debt situation thro...
That money, that is the public debt.
The President did contend that he could cut spending without reducing benefits.
I think we have too light a treatment to the need to contain wasteful spending now, that is not producing much for the e...