"The one who has gotten it mostly right was Gov. Daniels at CPAC, but you would never know it from the media coverage, which focused mostly on whether he was too short to be president. Daniels aimed his remarks not only at the economics, but mostly at the philosophical issue of what kind of society do we want, and what the proper role of government should be. His key point was that the only number worth discussing in the debate over deficits and cuts is $3.7 trillion -- the proposed budget for next year. Its sheer size is the problem, and if the size of government continues to grow and the debt obligations continue to explode it will be impossible for us to remain "self governed"; we will inevitably cede control over more and more of our lives to feed the central authority that needs to cover its self-fulfilling obligations. He uses the simple example of ObamaCare to make the case -- why shouldn't we simply trust the folks to use their own money to buy the kind of health care best suited to them, allow choice and competition to work, and minimize the role of government to supporting only the truly needy; that's a trillion dollars that stays with the folks, and doesn't pass through government hands on its way toward redistribution after the bureaucracy takes its cut. If you couch the debate in those terms, the choices become not which program to fund or not, but what government the people choose to have."
[American Thinker]
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