The latest Rasmussen poll indicates it is not 1995 all over again and that this time around a solid majority, 58 percent of the American public, prefers a government shutdown over continued business as usual. Voters are demanding that Congress to do something about the fiscal crisis by cutting the budget, ending out-of-control spending, and reducing the nation’s mountain of debt — even if it means shutting down the government to force the President and Congressional Democrats to “get it” and get on with the business of scaling back government.
- How is it that the average American understands that record spending is unsustainable, but the Democrats do not understand?
- How can business leaders and economists warn against government overspending and speak out vehemently about the current threats and inevitable crisis without the President and the Democrats in Congress hearing their message?
- How can the experts point out that the fiscal crisis is hurting private sector job growth without the President and Democrats facing up to the fact that the stimulus didn’t work and unemployment must be addressed?
- How can millions of Americans lose their jobs and millions lose their homes without the President and the Democrats understanding that they are destroying middle-class America?
- How can the voters in 2010 have sent such a loud and clear message that they will nolonger put up with reckless spending without that message being heard on Capitol Hill and in the White House?
This needs to be the year when the federal budget is smaller, not just frozen at last year’s bloated level. This needs to be the year when last year’s outrageous level of spending gets deflated. This needs to be year when we stop making larger and larger additions to the national debt and roll back the tide of red ink that gushes and sloshes through the budget projections. This MUST be the year when we soundly reject the foolish notion that it is okay to spend more money than we have.
As Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) said, “When you add it all up, the [national debt] numbers are staggering.”
As House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said, “We’re broke!”
And just as Maggie Thatcher warned about socialism: We’ve reached the point where we’ve “run out of other people’s money.”