[KantianBurke]

Still doesn't explain why the Tea Party was awfully quiet when Dubya was in office. Meanwhile:

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Huh?

Another Frumpish incoherence. Big surprise. Only one person thinks Frum is a genius.

The TP did not exist as an item called the “Tea Pary” when GWB was in office. He had plenty of criticism as to his spending, and IMO that is well documented.

[cuban leaf]

I remember back in 2007, it hit me like a brick why our money seems to not go as far: Tax inflation. I noticed that more and more of what we spent and earned was going to taxes and fees.

To clarify, we were renters and our rent didn’t go up between 1998 and 2011 while we continued to get into nicer and nicer houses.

[csmusaret]

There was not widespread outrage about spending because,as it related to GDP, Bush's spending was not much out of the ordinary until the Pelosi/Reid cartel took Congress.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Stop purchasing imports.

Stop purchasing imports.

Stop purchasing imports.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Welfare State Socialism softens the character of its subjects. They become passive sheep who want the spending but don’t want to pay for it. So they focus on taxing “the rich” to give themselves a free ride. Every day, we see how truly evil the Welfare State is. We see that it is a run away train heading off a cliff and none of the passengers or engineers is willing or able to stop it.

[Personal Responsibility]

So the only options given to cut were entitlements and defense? Is that the only thing which costs government money?

How about options to do away with the EPA? DOE? Reform the tax code and drastically reduce the IRS? Reduce or eliminate any number of government programs?

I wonder what the outcome would be then?

But of course, Frum won’t ask those questions though because he’s a hack.

[EternalVigilance]

We're broke because of over-spending. This isn't rocket science. And more than half of that spending is unconstitutional.

Want to fix it? Stop all spending that is outside the Enumerated Powers.

That would solve most of the problem right there, before you even start to analyze the advisability of spending on things that may be constitutional but that aren't needed.

[Delta 21]

WOW! This looks like an old Ross Perot thread !