Conservative math, part II

Sometimes I just can't help but respond to the local conservative blogs. Roosh at Shot in the Dark seriously believes conservatives have the answer to our national debt problem:

I maintain that our deficit spending habits and their product, our national debt have left our country in an increasingly precarious position and is in fact an issue of national security.

The extrapolation of the mathematics, an element of which is our evolving demographics (i.e. more people getting on the wagon and less people pushing it) will eventually result in a national financial meltdown and the collapse of the American dollar.

Liberals oft cited moral imperative to be a compassionate, civilized nation manifested in layers and layers of entitlements will be eclipsed by the fact that at some point we will simply be unable to service our debt let alone borrow more.

Soon we will all be conservatives. Fiscally-speaking that is. The question of what our federal government should or should not do for it’s citizens will become an academic discussion.

Unfortunately, he and the rest of the conservatives don't have a leg to stand on. Their hero "W" has the dubious distinction of being the only president to lead us into war while simultaneously cutting taxes. Republicans in Congress fought tooth and nail against returning to pay-as-you-go rules.

In typical Republican fashion, however, they don't want you to pay any attention to this. The tax cuts aren't the problem. The war isn't the problem. Deficit spending--which we didn't do under Clinton--isn't the problem. No, the problem is that the terrible liberals want to make sure we provide our citizens with proper healthcare and send our veterans to college.

Don't buy the hype. Conservatives these days are not interested in reducing government spending. They're just interested in redirecting it: from working families to energy speculators, from protecting our country to attacking others, and from the bottom 99% to the 1% that has more money than it can even handle.

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