I will add, that it is persistently interesting to me how the Left systematically takes the truths–the documentable, factual, empirical truths–of conservatives, and simply appropriates the RHETORIC directly, without making even rudimentary efforts to show how it applies; how, for example, it is somehow “lunacy” to want to discontinue the road to national bankruptcy.
I just have one question: do you invert the truth 180 degrees intentionally, or simply out of the long standing delusion that your side is inherently and always rational, and can thus lay claim to the actual truth without delay or hesitation, regardless of the facts?
The simple reality is that spending was $2 trillion under Clinton. It will be (we think: no budget has been passed or even seriously proposed under Obama, so it’s hard to be sure) roughly $3.2 trillion under Obama IN 2012, and trending sharply up. That increase in SPENDING has nothing to do with ANYTHING except increases in the SIZE OF GOVERNMENT.
We are on a path to insolvency. What merit, I ask, is there in pretending that if we postpone rational discussion for another day that some concrete good will have been done? To be irresponsible is not the same as being responsible. They are, in fact, the reverse of each other. In the real, actual world. some ideas are better than others. Some PEOPLE are better than others. You, here, are betraying a mediocrity of spirit and intelligence that, if you could see it clearly, would give you ample cause to consider long bouts of silence.
The 86 trillion dollars in unfunded–UNFUNDABLE, to be clear, in any conceivable scenario–liabilities would give any rational person pause. It does not give you pause. Ergo. . .