Quote: (02-12-2013 10:04 PM)Major Tom Wrote:
We don't need bigger or smaller government, we need smarter government!" -Barack Obama, every State of the Union Speech he made
This is the thing that has always bothered me about Obama. Politics is about making difficult choices and accepting trade offs. You can raise taxes to lower the deficit or you can lower taxes to let people keep more of their money. You can expand entitlement spending to allow the government to do more or you can cut entitlement spending and live with the government doing less.
Yes, there are a few common-sense reforms that can make government "smarter," but they won't even get us close to where we need to be. We have to start making concrete choices about whether we want a small, competent government that takes care of the basics and leaves everything else to the states and to private markets or we want to be a full-fledged social democracy. The idea that we can magically have it both ways is foolish and Obama is one of the chief enablers of that fantasy.