[DeeOhGee]

President Bush has been a stalwart on pro-growth policies for our nation, but Congressional Republicans have been mute on what needs to be done going forward.

Not stalwart enough to veto a spending bill or two. As Kemp himself points out " "Budget deficits have few long-term economic consequences unless they reach proportions far larger than anything we have seen or are likely to see..."

Well, they have reached those proportions, and so has the debt. We will reach the point of not being able to balance the budget no matter how much revenue we raise from lower taxes. We have got to control spending.

[Billthedrill]

It is excruciatingly difficult for anyone to cut down the size of government. Reagan campaigned on it and was, I think, perfectly sincere, but even he couldn't do it. Bush is simply not a small-government crusader - he's a lot of other good things, but he isn't that, and even if he were, he'd find out as Reagan did that foreign affairs take precedence, especially the sort that have enemies blowing up buildings.

The real problem is that Congress, who really does control the purse-strings, won't take action unless it is led by an executive that can take the heat for cutting their constituents' pork. If a minority of them try it on their own they'll only manage to kill their chances for re-election without accomplishing anything, and that's why they don't.

[claptrap]

Politicians spend like their wealthiest constituent/patrons
want them to spend, to change the employees behavior you need to get at their bosses behavior!

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Since all politicians in power in America have surrendered to the growing monster of socialism, we can't have a very bright future.

The government is headed toward taking every dime of our earned wages.

As working just for the privilege of paying taxes looks more and more foolish, should we all simply concentrate on being on the receiving end of government giveaways and take as much from government as we can before the whole mess collapses?

[DH]

Career politicians.  Until we get rid of career politicians we will never control our government.

Sure, they tell you what you want to hear while in "election mode" and when they are safely in office again, they go back to the most important work in their lives...insuring they get elected again.  How?  By telling the sheep what they want to hear again.

Strict term limits will help to turn the tide but won't be the complete answer.  The only true means to cleanse our filthy, corrupt political system is to pay each citizen their gross income in cash and at the end of each year make them pay ALL taxes back to the government from the cash they received.  Only then, will the sheep realize the folly of voting time and time again for the same career politician.  The rage and howls of anger would be staggering.

Remove the "smoke and mirrors" and let the people see what they really get.