Sure answers are simple. It is execution that is complicated.
That is the point of this line in the article
America is looking for leadership capable of making bold decisions.
Every Department of Redundancy, every Program of Programs, every loop hole in the tax code created by Congress has its adherents and lobbying group.
You don’t set out to gore someone’s scared cow with raising a posse of cattle herders with their accompanying pitchforks and torches ready to defend their government sanctioned advantages.
The Department of Education was barely a year old when Ronaldus Magnus set to slaughter that milk cow. He was soundly rebuffed by the defenders of the sacred cow of the Teacher’s Unions.
If you are going to cut any program you had better have a huge majority of the American people vocally crying death to that program if you are to have a chance to succeed. If you are talking government; it is far easier to create than destroy.
It is going to take bold leadership; that is a Bold Charismatic Leader who can inspire the people to champion bold action to support killing blood sucking, creativity stifling government programs.
Personally I just don’t see it happening. Almost every person in this country has or has a family member that has become dependant on some part of government largess. Perhaps we will be able to chip away at some of the smaller bits like ethanol and farm subsidies because they have relatively small constituencies but the huge parts like the Dept of Ed I think are dragons to big to slay.
Too big to slay or too big to fail? The argument is nonsensical. Nothing is to big to terminate, not even the sun.
Freeing our society from the bondage of government requires a love of freedom greater than the love of selfish desire. This requires redefining freedom.
Today freedom is understood as license to do whatever one desires. Promiscuity, drugs, abortion, homosexuality, pornograpy, guaranteed subsistence, universal health care, materialism are all based not on freedom but the suspension of morality.
Freedom is the ability to do what is right and good. License is the ability to do what is hostile and selfish.
Every so called right enforced by government is hostile to a given constituency. It is a right required at the expense of a group that must sacrifice its wealth or its morality.
Turning this ship around will require strong leaders of deep moral courage who are unafraid of the enemies of morality. If we are to be a free nation we must be a moral nation.