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Question for Centrists: Does the Federal Government Spend Too Much?

Feb. 26, 2013 3:59pm
Will Cain is an analyst for TheBlaze and a contributor to CNN. In his role for The Blaze, he provides commentary and analysis on the 2012 presidential election  […]
Will Cain is an analyst for TheBlaze and a contributor to CNN. In his role for The Blaze, he provides commentary and analysis on the 2012 presidential election and other major political events. Cain frequently contributes to a wide range of CNN shows and has also been an analyst for National Review where he hosted the video interview series “Off the Page.” He has interviewed guests such as Sen. Jon Kyl, and UN Ambassador John Bolton, and moderated debates between National Review and The Nation. Prior to hosting and producing, Cain financed, bought and sold two digital and print media companies. Quince Media was a Hispanic media company that garnered Cain the accolade of 40 Most Influential People in the Magazine Industry (Folio 2007). Cain Communications was a community newspaper group in Texas sold to Stephens Media. Cain is a licensed attorney in Texas.
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As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say.  I just watch what they do.  ~Andrew Carnegie
 
I have a question for “centrists.” I’m seriously interested in your answer. Does the federal government have a spending problem?
 
It’s a simple question. It’s also a dulled and clichéd question due to overuse. But still, it’s important. And the Democratic Party has clearly answered: no.
 
Over the past several years “centrists” have been convinced that Republicans are crazy radicals opposed to any form of tax increase. While Democrats have very moderately suggested that we do not just have a spending problem and that we must take a balanced approach to reducing the deficit.
 
But the actions of Democrats have just exposed the lie in their words. Right now President Obama, Congressman Steve Israel and a host of other Democrats are suggesting the $44B in sequestration cuts on a $3.6T budget this year will result in failing airline security, border security, starving families and general misery. This is a cut of 1.2% this year!
 
George Will put it wonderfully, “The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government’s size is at any moment, it is the bare minimum necessary to forestall intolerable suffering”
The point is that Democrats have exposed that their position is not “we do not just have a spending problem.” Their position is that “there is no spending problem.” Well…aside from spending too little.
Their inability to stomach the smallest of cuts. Check that. The sequester isn’t even a cut. It’s a reduction in the rate of spending growth. Their inability to stomach even the smallest reduction in spending exposes their true belief.  Is it radical to deny such a person another dollar in taxes? Really, which position is radical?
So centrists, do you also believe there is no spending problem?
 
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.  ~John Locke

 

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Comments (13)

  • truemedia
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 1:05pm

    Duh…Is Obama a Marxist!!!

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  • Dracos80
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 1:36am

    We have faced these issues today because of one act back in 1913 when the federal Gov’t gave the power to print money to a public banking system. They were schemed out of that. See what happens in this system that we have now which is a fiat system we allow the Federal reserve to print more than the goods we produce. The dollar is only there for a number value. the dollar has no intrinsic value. The value of the dollar is 0. Where our real wealth comes from is goods exported. By outsourcing jobs out side the U.S. we become less of a powerhouse economy and we have been doing this for almost a decade. back to my original point our borrowing money started with the federal reserve. before this we had no debt. so how does the federal reserve system work? well we call them up and say let us borrow this amount of money. Had we either kept the printing of the money in the power of the Gov’t or kept the gold standard we would not be in this mess we currently are. UNALIEN by expanding our debt at an enormous rate we are inherently headed toward an economic collapse. So the choices are economic collapse or economic collapse?

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    • UNALIEN
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 8:54am

      YES,,

      a debt default is the only option either a slow controlled devaluation or a “bank holiday” There is no way to grow out of this.. you can’t stop the spending or the ponzi scheme is exposed and collapses

      BTW the last time the debt was reduced was in the 1960′s and the total debt. liabilities and obligations (unfunded) are estimated to be around 200-220 trillion,, if interest rates rise that number goes up.

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  • SituationalGravity
    Posted on February 26, 2013 at 5:49pm

    Man is judged by how he spends his resources; time & money & etc. Debt is a sign of bad habits. Some bad habits are corrupt and others immoral and still others are evil. Debt is the gateway drug to acting evil.

    The FED is downright corrupt and probably immoral. Tyranny and evil is the gradual trajectory.

    Only, ONLY a “more-balanced budget amendment” will save the Union. Human Nature is a glutton; sometime for seemingly good reasons.

    The American Ideal is close to get it right; but certain factors need to be reconciled. One is understanding human nature. The other is understanding the Causality Principle of Special Relativity.

    The third is Situational Gravity.

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    • UNALIEN
      Posted on February 26, 2013 at 6:14pm

      SITUATIONALGRAVITY

      Only, ONLY a “more-balanced budget amendment” will save the Union. Human Nature is a glutton; sometime for seemingly good reasons.
      ———————-

      WRONG, that will cause a liquidity induced deflationary global collapse, the US dollar will get abandoned as a global reserve, all international US dollars will rush back into the US causing a currency collapse and massive inflation…

      The debt system requires perpetual debt expansion or it collapses, Now the Fed is “printing” to pay interest.. on its printing

      If interest rates went up to historical average levels now the entire tax income of the Government would go to just interest.. we have long past the point at which this thing can be fixed…

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      UNALIEN  
  • Zipit
    Posted on February 26, 2013 at 5:33pm

    Hmmmm! Centrist….Let me see. While sitting with a fence post planted firmly up your A$$, and your thumb in the wind, someone asks you; “does the federal government spend too much”? If you hesitate for one nano-second without saying YES! Your no centrist! You are either a liberal democrat, or you’re brain dead!

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  • UNALIEN
    Posted on February 26, 2013 at 5:16pm

    Will, my man you need to understand something very important,, it takes a little research but without this knowledge you just can’t put Government spending into perspective..

    Triffin’s dilemma or paradox.. a country that is the global reserve must expand its money/debt commensurate or proportional with the global growth to supply it with dollars,,, all money/debt is spent into existence,, the US must expand its debt or the global economy collapses in deflation and the US loses its status and the US dollar collapses causing massive inflation domestically,,, in other words, the US must expand its debt to maintain the global economy because it is the global reserve and it is unsustainable, it can’t expand enough in the long run.

    A balanced budget and real debt reduction would cause a massive deflationary depression…

    I don’t like it, but it is what it is,,, expand the debt or die… it is systemic, the US lived far above its means and benefited by the global reserve status and now it is destroying it, and it can’t get out

    They must spend and it usually ends up being on welfare or warfare

    hope you look into it,, i’ll be here all week try the veal

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    • SituationalGravity
      Posted on February 26, 2013 at 5:43pm

      Yes, the true believer is someone who doesn’t believe in debt.

      Death or death is the answer? Eventually Natural Law will reconcile the debt.

      It is a silly notion that we’re this far already, we cant go back.

      Many Americans, cash-rich & cash-poor, are addicted to debt. (and what debt buys). “Self-fulfilling Policies” are created by the subsidized class (Ruling Class & the cash-poor) to create jobs not capital. When government spending is cut; so are their salaries.

      The Situational Gravity of self preservation will cause good men to turn bad just to pay one more mortgage.

      Government jobs is Public Sector jobs is the property of the King. The American Ideal is Private Property. The highest ideal is, scientifically speaking, the lowest government spending/GDP possible with the lowest debt ratio possible. America is nowhere near the ideal; in fact it growing the opposite direction.

      The King needs guys like UNALIEN.

      The Causality Principle of Special Relativity is the crux of the Natural World. It says; Life (versus death) requires mass/energy to spend within its means to create revenue (energy resources). This law trumps those phoney Wall Street schemes; like the Ponzi-scheme of the Federal Government spending binge.

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    • UNALIEN
      Posted on February 26, 2013 at 6:03pm

      SITUATIONALGRAVITY

      I am not defending it, I am acknowledging the reality, it is a debt ponzi scheme, if debt expansion stops the entire thing collapses,, why.. Triffin dilemma.. I didn’t create it but I do understand it,, it will collapse.. “print” or die,, that is the game, perpetually induced inflation “debt spending”

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      UNALIEN  
  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on February 26, 2013 at 4:40pm

    Fed Govt GETS TOO MUCH MONEY

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    • Mr. H.
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 1:44pm

      You obviously do not understand that the Fed is where the U.S. Treasury puts all of its money.

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  • LINKSTER
    Posted on February 26, 2013 at 4:25pm

    ” The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living.”
    Anonymous

    ” To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.”
    Adolph Hitler
    1933

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