Great points, right? Just basic math here, folks. The federal government is not solvent and current health care reform bills will only exacerbate the problem.
Of course, when the Republicans not too long ago held the commanding heights in Washington, what did they do about health care reform? Nothing. In fact, in cahoots with Democrats, they expanded the health care welfare state with the prescription drug benefit plan.
Foolish! Reckless! Destructive!
I’m sure there are some Democrats and Republicans who have always understood what Ryan is talking about now. They haven’t had enough pull to change the death spiral of deficit fueled government expansion, but every once in a while they have a chance to be heard and their plain common sense is a striking contrast to the deceptive soothsaying of typical politicians.
I’d like to believe that professional politicians in both parties are capable of learning from their mistakes. That said, for all of my life I’ve heard them talk about lowering taxes and decreasing government spending, and for all of my life the government has increased people’s overall tax burden and grown the national debt astronomically. Unsustainable debt sounds like an abstract condition that couldn’t possibly affect people’s lives. I wonder how many people living in Greece felt that way until recently.
After how much more time, after how many more examples of the blithering idiocy of central planning and the dismal effects of coercive interventionism, will people finally reject the absurdity of granting more control and power to Government in the name of “problem solving?”
Perhaps not much longer.
