Good comment from visitor dsimon on a Bruce Bartlett post differentiating between actual deficit hawks and jokers like Evan Bayh:
If our politicians can’t make hard choices–or even easy ones–maybe it’s because the public doesn’t really want to make them. If our budgets are consistently fiscally irresponsible, perhaps it’s because voters have wanted it that way. It’s been too easy from the time of Reagan to believe in the free lunch, and now we howl any time we’re asked to actually pay for the programs or tax cuts we say we want. But thing we care about are things we should be willing to do something about. When was the last time we were asked to actually do something regarding what we said we wanted from our government?
Question: Why does it seem that fiscal conservative seems to only apply to issues of taxation (and how to reduce it), and domestic spending? Wonder how many wars we’d fight if we were paying cash . . .
write your congressman to end the Fed and we’ll find out, kevin.