GEORGE WILL: Something’s brewing: Tea party will rise again
January 2, 2013 at 11:06 pm in Grand Forks Herald
Deficit spending once was largely for investments building infrastructure, winning wars which benefited future generations, so government borrowing appropriately shared the burden with those generations. But now, continuous borrowing burdens future generations in order to finance current consumption. Continue Reading
Another typical Republican who now bashes what he supported for 8 years from Jan. 2001-Jan. 2009 while Bush and his Republicans spent the national debt from 5 trillion to 13 trillion. Just like a Texas school history book.
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Lol, great piece of satire!
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Bush was a piker at deficit spending as compared to the Obama curse we enjoy today.
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The goal of a politician is to be re-elected. Spend money to throw peanuts to voters is what they do. Works, too. Look how many incumbent politicians get re-elected time and time again.
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George Will is getting very tiresome. He’s lives in his self-constructed fantasy world and pumps out these pieces that would be rejected for publication if they came from anyone else. His visceral hatred of Obama is in evidence in some way in whatever he writes. He has become a bitter and sour old man with nothing of value to contribute.
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The only statement here that I object to is:
“Today’s policy, says DeMuth, erases “the distinction between investing for the future and borrowing from the future.” ”
We are NOT borrowing from the future. We are STEALING from the future–they have not–cannot– give us their approval, to take without permission is theft.
What a wonderfully blunt and accurate assessment of the predicament. Politicians buying votes today with money taken from our children and grandchildren and great-great-ever-so-great grandchildren. The house of cards WILL collapse. The tremors are already being felt. Soon. Probably not tomorrow, or next month, maybe not next year. It’s coming, though.
I’ve been saying for over a year that there’s no real difference between Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives. They both believe in enormous government, restricting freedom, buying “everything” on money we don’t have, to accomplish goals we don’t need and which may be actually counterproductive to a fair and just society. More security cameras, less security (and privacy.) More spying, fewer search warrants.
Better to look at the local, state, and federal government in terms of Tyranny and Anarchism. Both parties, both philosophies are heavily biased towards tyranny, and there’s damned little left at mid-pack or at the Anarchy end of the scale.
Tyranny is winning, genuine moderates on this scale are rare.
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