The Businessman Canard -- It’s not impt not to be a pol; it's impt to be a really good one

National Review Online ^ | October 11, 2011 | Rick Lowry

[editor-surveyor]

You can see it only because it’s in your cache; if you delete your cache, you’ll never see it again.

[editor-surveyor]

Grinchrich’s own is running right and governing left.

His term as speaker ruined our chances of shutting down the UN, and of ever ending socialism in the US.

[Liberty Valance]

OK - Thanks.

[MNJohnnie]

hat it will have to be made up by increasing taxes on low and middle income people

Nope. The flaw in your "logic" is the assumption that the Federal Government must be given double digit budget increases year in and year out.

It doesn't. It can, and must, get smaller. When Govt debt equals 100% GDP you MUST fix the broken tax and spend political system. You cannot just ignore it and hope the problem goes away.

[Quicksilver]

We know how much you like establishment goons, but to see any irony in a citizen trying to fix the problems that your elitist owners made is a stretch.

The We are badly mistaken. I see no irony in citizens wanting to fix problems. Either you missed the irony or it missed you.

[editor-surveyor]

There’s no irony there to miss; all that’s there for the author is a total lack of respect for his own credibility, if he has any left.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “It doesn’t. It can, and must, get smaller.” <<

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Yes, it can, but that will require monitizing enough of the debt that the remainder can be paid down. That will have to have some inflationary effect, but how much is not predictable.

[Sherman Logan]

Oh, I agree that the government must be reduced in size.

But that is a different question entirely of what the fiscal impact of a particular tax scheme is.

[af_vet_rr]

This is not the type of race that the voters want to see. The voters want to see ideas calmly and rationally discussed as if these men were adults.

This is also why Perry and Romney need to accept the invitation to a Tea Party-hosted debate in Texas that's one-on-one and moderator-free. Cain and Gingrich are going to do it a week from tomorrow, and Perry and Romney still won't commit to one. Each candidate has a total of an hour and 15 minutes to discuss their plans. There's no moderators out to sic them on each other and no reason for them to lay into one another. It's a chance for them to contrast themselves with the other candidates.

[Vigilanteman]

If I were in charge for one day, the first thing I would do is eliminate all pensions for elective office at all levels of government. Elective office is a duty that SHOULD (perhaps must?) be a sacrifice, not a gateway to the good life.

Excellent idea. Let them contribute to a 401(k) like the rest of us who pull the load.

They wanted to make Washington king and he declined. Then they wanted to make him president for life and he declined that as well. The modern day examples of public "servants" who decline power offered to them are few and far between. J.Edgar Hoover was one.