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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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From: TimF1/4/2010 8:02:24 PM
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Reckless Spending is Hard

Before the new year, President Obama said: "I think I've shown this year that I can make hard decisions, even when they're not popular."

The Orange County Register asks the right questions:

... [S]ince when is it a tough choice to spend other people's money without their consent on ineffective programs? Is it difficult to recklessly spend trillions of dollars that don't exist, as you quadruple the deficit, and escalate the national debt?

If you live among the political class, spending is the easiest choice. And satisfying. It’s like giving your family everything they want for Christmas.

... [H]is decisions defy common sense and fiscal accountability. Obama might think that he's made hard decisions, but in fact he's taken the easy way out with most of his domestic policies.

P.J. O'Rourke once wrote: "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." Obama is like the teenage boy saying it was a "hard decision" to take the car out for a joyride.

The real tough decision would have been to leave the car in the garage -- resist the temptation of reckless spending and government expansion.

If you study Obama's decisions over the last year, it's hard to find cases where his "hard" decisions have advanced freedom. Most of his grandiose plans further his own political interests, at the expense of current and future taxpayers.

stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com
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