…and economic decline. Good luck with that, Mitt. For without principles to guide your management, there will be no management worthy of the name. So it has come down to a choice between a man who believes in ideas, but apparently has none (Gingrich); and a man who is happy to subscribe to whatever point-of-view will get him elected (Romney), even though he never had an original idea in his life. There were, arguably, better voices in the Republica… Continue reading →

…participated in it for many decades. More of the spending has been done by Democratic administrations and Democratic Congresses. The current crisis came about sooner than it otherwise would have because the Democratic administration and Congress of 2009-2010 ran up the national debt more than all previous administrations and Congresses combined. But there’s plenty of blame to go around. The George W. Bush administration and the Republican Congress… Continue reading →

…reated by the failure of the private economy to grow. Government has not become less greedy, but the private economy has become less productive. Unemployment is going up and we’re barely, if at all, out of the years-long recession that began in 2007-2008. Government, as represented by the precious welfare state of Democrats and establishment Republicans, has a massive conflict of interest. It needs people to be dependent on their entitlement, welf… Continue reading →

…ll missing the point: That Social Security cannot be saved. The proof will come when Social Security actually becomes so insolvent that it cannot make payments to current or near-term retirees. (Opinions on this vary, but it could happen within the decade, especially as the economy continues not to improve, or even worsen.) What will happen when Social Security becomes blatantly insolvent? There will be two camps. One will be like Chris Christie,… Continue reading →

…e not to send them legislation they dislike. If all of past history is any guide, they won’t. Republicans in the House will cave and compromise with liberals in both parties to produce the same old same old. At “best,” they’ll return us to the billion dollar deficits of the Bush era rather than the trillion dollar deficits of the Obama era. Shrewd liberal Senators (including Republicans such as Scott Brown, from Massachusetts) worry that Tea Party… Continue reading →

…is neither conventionally liberal nor conservative, but simply insane — as demonstrated by his toleration of a national debt that is bigger than it took 220 previous years of American history to run up. It’s the duty of a Congress to obstruct a bad President with bad ideas and policies that will surely wreck the country. To suggest, as liberals are now doing, that “obstructing” is the main concern is to elevate the importance of a strategy above i… Continue reading →