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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: haqihana who wrote (6644)3/29/2006 11:23:23 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (2) of 71588
 
The only way to get politicians to stop spending like profligate spendthrift drunken sailors to to institute and external control. The only way I see under the current state of affairs is to pass a Budgetary Constitutional Amendment. If accounting terms were defined in it, and it required no deficits and it allowed for limited growth, then it might restrain politicians.

Politicians think it is someone else's money. As long as people fail to treat government spending like it is their own money we will have ever expanding and ever more expensive government.

"Democracy in America is doomed when the people learn to vote themselves money from the public trough..." - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America.
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