Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, March 06, 2010 1:50:46 PM
The Bunning saga illustrates one of
the greatest obstacles in the path of downsizing the government.
Whenever spending cuts are made, statists always insist the very first
dollar of reduced spending is being taken from noble programs to benefit
the needy, or politically popular initiatives like unemployment
benefits. The federal budget has swelled to over three and a half
trillion dollars… but when someone objects to another ten billion in
deficit spending, the statists tearfully insist the unemployed will be
left penniless. Every dollar of that massive budget is sacred, and every
cut will have to come from the most essential services. Those
“non-essential government workers” are never on the chopping block – as
soon as government is told it must cut spending, it starts throwing pink
slips at cops, firefighters, and teachers. Even when Washington is
sitting on half a trillion dollars of unspent cash, it still insists
that unemployment benefits will be the first thing to go, if we don’t
agree to saddle our children with another ten billion in debt.