[Nextrush]

I don’t like amnesty but the ACU-CPAC conservatives are the beltway GOP-E, not outside the beltway folks like me.

Rand Paul is an outsider, its just that his outsider status may be too far left for us, Ted Cruz’s outsider status is a better kind.

My number one agenda item is a balanced budget now not ten years from now like Pat Toomey and Paul Ryan are pushing.

Inhofe could propose the immediate balanced budget and maybe then I would change my mind.

All the emotional arguments about different issues won’t stop the debt bubble from bursting.

WE NEED DEBT ACTION NOW AND THESE BUSINESS AS USUAL POLITICIANS AREN’T TAKING IT.

[kabar]

My number one agenda item is a balanced budget now not ten years from now like Pat Toomey and Paul Ryan are pushing.

There is no way we can achieve a balanced budget now. Two thirds of the budget includes the entitlement programs, other so-called mandatories, and debt servicing costs. Revenue just covers these costs. When you borrow 43 cents out of every dollar, it makes it very difficult to make the necessary changes immediately to balance the budget.

The federal government controls 25% of our GDP and about 40% when you include state and local government. I want a balanced budget, but it will have to be done incrementally.

At least Ryan and Toomey are now talking about 10 years to do it. Before that, they were saying it would be 40 to 50 years from now.

And just having a balanced budget is not the answer. You can balance the budget by increasing taxes and other revenue producing measures. We need to balance the budget by reducing spending and reforming out entitlement programs that will bankrupt us if they are not changed.