OPINION:
The liberals in Congress and across the country have bought into the false notion that a top-heavy bureaucracy and a massive group of people can efficiently serve the needs of a country that now has a population of more than 330 million. In all candor, our system of government has actually done pretty well when one considers the other countries and their various forms of government. However, there comes a point at which a government may no longer be able to pay its huge debt and risks being abandoned by the private citizens and foreign countries who own that debt. We are now at the $20-trillion-in-debt level, and the interest alone is becoming extremely problematic.
The Republicans certainly share responsibility for the growth of our debt, but it is the liberal and “progressive” ideology that planted the seeds for deficit spending by virtue of their Keynesian approach to government fiscal policy over the past century. At some point, someone has to put a halt to the runaway train of irresponsible spending and the unending growth of our national debt. It’s not a matter of if the debt bubble will burst; it’s a matter of when.
ROB WEINHOLD
Dale City, Va.
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