You Decide: Can government waste easily be cut?
By Mike Walden
The Stokes News
I like presidential campaigns.
Obviously, from my professional point of view, interesting policy proposals are discussed. But the excitement, drama and unexpected twists and turns in these big-time contests also spark my interest, and this year’s presidential election will be the 10th in which I will vote.
While the tactics, technology and styles of presidential campaigns may have changed over the decades, some elements remain the same. One is the recommendation to reduce or eliminate wasteful government spending. Calls by candidates to clamp down on waste always receive big rounds of applause.
And for good reason.
The Stokes News
I like presidential campaigns.
Obviously, from my professional point of view, interesting policy proposals are discussed. But the excitement, drama and unexpected twists and turns in these big-time contests also spark my interest, and this year’s presidential election will be the 10th in which I will vote.
While the tactics, technology and styles of presidential campaigns may have changed over the decades, some elements remain the same. One is the recommendation to reduce or eliminate wasteful government spending. Calls by candidates to clamp down on waste always receive big rounds of applause.
And for good reason.
posted by Andy W. Rogers | 7:14 PM
1 Comments:
Ah yes, the old waste and fraud diversion. That tactic used to be popular with the left back in the 1960s and 1970s.
It goes something like this:
If only we cut out the waste and fraud in government, we will see that all that is left if benevolence and largesse and the government won't seem nearly as big as it is.
I don't know whether the tactic fell out of favor because it got so trite or because everyone stopped believing it. Probably a little of both.
But as Walden points out, 82% of government spending is in so-called entitlements. Cut all the fraud and waste you like, the government will still have its hands way down deep in your pockets.
So let's see a show of hands of all those who have decided to give up their democratic ability to vote themselves wealth from the public treasury. Let's hear it for everyone who has decided to stop being a moocher and a leech and join us in telling the government to back way off.
I didn't think so.
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