Radical Budget?

With $17 trillion of national debt, and $100 trillion of unfunded promises for Social Security and Medicare coming due....it would seem that America is in need of a radical budget.  Maybe one that inflicts some pain on us all?

Nope.  That's not going to happen.

Even in a city known for hyperbole, the attacks by Democrats on Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan stand out.

It's "bad news in every single direction," said New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney, and "extreme and divisive," according to Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said the budget is "not a statement of our national values," and her second in command, Maryland's Steny Hoyer, claimed the plan "represents a bleak future for America."

President Obama went furthest, saying in a speech this week that Ryan's "draconian cuts" would "impose a radical vision on our country" and that it was "antithetical to our entire history." It is "so far to the right," he said, "that it makes the Contract with America look like the New Deal."

So does Ryan's budget proposal live up to this radical billing?

Not at all. That is, not unless you'd call Obama's Democratic predecessor, Bill Clinton, an even more extreme radical.

Under Ryan's plan, the federal government would be 46% bigger in real terms than it was in 2000, which was President Clinton's last year in office. That percentage comes from an IBD analysis of budget data.

Here;  http://news.investors.com/article/607024/201204091911/paul-ryan-budget-spends-far-more-than-bill-clinton.htm?Ntt=john-merline

Holy Massive Government!  46% bigger than it was just 12 years ago..and yet that's still not BIG ENOUGH to appease the spenders?

So you see people....we really are going to simply drive ourselves over a cliff.  Only then will the spenders HAVE to face reality and live within their means. 

The tragedy is that when America does fall over the cliff and the Federal checks start bouncing....anarchy, unrest, rioting and mayhem WILL be the result.

We simply aren't the same bunch of Americans who went through the last depression.  Those folks were already tough and the depression made them tougher.

Today we are soft, lazy, obese and incapable of caring for ourselves for more than a few hours if the electricity goes out.  People will be robbing, looting and stealing when the first street light goes out.

So get ready....it could happen any day now.  It's only the Lord's grace that is keeping us from tumbling already.