That's the typical entitlement-addicted mentality. Reducing spending is criminal.

Increasing spending or redirecting the current levels is gospel. Remember that famous phrase after the Cold War ended, the “peace dividend” (to be spent, of course).

So you're a closet Bill Clinton fan. Good to know.

That's the typical entitlement-addicted mentality. Reducing spending is criminal.

Increasing spending or redirecting the current levels is gospel. Remember that famous phrase after the Cold War ended, the “peace dividend” (to be spent, of course).

So you're a closet Bill Clinton fan. Good to know.

That's the typical entitlement-addicted mentality. Reducing spending is criminal.

Increasing spending or redirecting the current levels is gospel. Remember that famous phrase after the Cold War ended, the “peace dividend” (to be spent, of course).

That's the typical entitlement-addicted mentality. Reducing spending is criminal.

Increasing spending or redirecting the current levels is gospel. Remember that famous phrase after the Cold War ended, the “peace dividend” (to be spent, of course).

Balancing budgets in normal times is fine and dandy.

Year after year and decade after decade their is always an exceptional event that prevents us from balancing the budget. There always will be. They depend on this type of thinking to convince the ordinary tax payer that THIS year is no exception.

Balancing budgets in normal times is fine and dandy.

Year after year and decade after decade their is always an exceptional event that prevents us from balancing the budget. There always will be. They depend on this type of thinking to convince the ordinary tax payer that THIS year is no exception.

Balancing budgets in normal times is fine and dandy.
These are not normal times. On top of everything else, we are financing our wars by not paying for them.

Then, too we have this:
BALANCE THE BUDGET, BUT DON'T ASK ME TO CONTRIBUTE BY PAYING TAXES. Let someone else pay, especially those most heavily affected by stagnated wages and rising prices.

Balancing budgets in normal times is fine and dandy.
These are not normal times. On top of everything else, we are financing our wars by not paying for them.

Then, too we have this:
BALANCE THE BUDGET, BUT DON'T ASK ME TO CONTRIBUTE BY PAYING TAXES. Let someone else pay, especially those most heavily affected by stagnated wages and rising prices.

We dont want to lower the peoples standard of living.

The people have come to rely upon the government too much.

The government is too big. It employs too many people to cut the budget.

The government is a self perpetuating entity that feeds upon your paychecks.

So to sum up Jims positon and oppose a balanced budget:

The government has established itself as a germ………a virus in our lives and it is constantly growing and growing. It is a leech upon society. A once useful tool for the advancement of a society has become an entity unto itself…..ever voracious, ever starving to be fed.

And feed it we do. With more and more tax dollars so it can become larger and larger until it absorbs us.

Cut the budget………..HOW DARE US. Balance the BUDGET………HOW DARE WE.

The government must be fed. It must LIVE. Tax the people more…………drain them more and more to feed the beast…..For the beast must be fed.

I think we could tame our spending habits quite a bit by limiting the pork barrel spending. I mean, if you look at some of the earmarks on any bill that gets passed, you have to wonder why the country has to pay for it (think about the “bridge to nowhere”).

Like Neocon said, we all individually have a budget to balance. Why can't we expect the same thing from our government? I mean, if my household was spending in the red as much as our government likes to do, then I would be declaring bankruptcy here pretty soon. How long can this continue? We can't spend money that we don't have. Probably the wisest advice I ever received. Why can't the government take this to heart?