Much as I hate to admit it, I was wrong. Whew! There, I said it. Now that I've said it you're probably wondering what I was wrong about. Well, if you ask my wife, she'd probably give you a laundry list of stuff, but I'm talking specifically about tax cuts. See, I've been trudging along all these years like a dutiful Reaganite, chanting the mantra of lower tax cuts. Let's face it nobody likes taxes, me included. I also hate the idea of wasteful spending and big government.
However, looming on the horizon are our huge entitlement programs- Medicare and Medicaid, which threaten to undermine the future of our kids and our grand kids. Our government has future financial obligations of more than $50 trillion dollars! You would hope in an election year that topic would be a primary focus, yet nobody is talking about it (with the exception of Ron Paul). We do hear a lot about universal health care which gives everyone a warm fuzzy in the short term, but will accelerate the inevitable.
In the old days, tuberculosis used to be called consumption, because it literally consumed the afflicted person from the inside out. Our country is suffering from consumption now, but who will step up in Washington to fix this problem? Who cares more about the future of our children and grandchildren than their own political futures? Who is willing to put their political neck on the line and propose tax increases and huge cuts in federal programs? Who is willing to slash and burn Medicaid and Medicare before it's too late?
I don't have an answer, but if you are interested to learn more about the impact of our runaway federal spending, check out this story posted on the Glenn Beck website:
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/219/3776/
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