Is It Radical To Cut Government Spending?

By Rick Williams

There's Nothing Radical At All About Rick Williams' Proposal To Cut $1 Trillion In His First Year

Rick Williams will do something about our bloated, obnoxious and self-satisfied Washington D.C. political culture. These people in Washington have been living high off the fat of the land for decades-- and Rick proposes to put a stop to it. Right now! In his first year in office! No one else in Washington offers anything remotely like this. They're all "business as usual" types; protectors and spokesmen for the status quo; run of the mill tinkerers; go-along, get-alongs who won't rock the boat in D.C. In other words, they offer nothing. Without some major change, your opinion won't matter, and the evil business in Washington D.C. will continue right along without change. Now that's radical!

Rick's proposal for $1 trillion in spending cuts is only a starting point. We have an annual federal deficit of $1.7 trillion per year. And this doesn't include the buildup in unfunded liabilities like Social Security and Medicare. Our radical politicians in Washington D.C. want to ignore such things; they want to sweep them under the rug; they want to play a game of don't look and pretend. Pretend like business as usual will work. Don't look at the obvious fact that we can't spend money we don't have. Pretend that we can continue on with a monstrous welfare/warfare state as if nothing was wrong. Our nation's capital is living in a dream world . . . and that's radical!

Republican Congressman Paul Ryan recently proposed a federal budget plan that got hearts all a-twitter on both sides of the Democrat/Republican aisle. But actually, Congressman Ryan's plan is a big, fat goose egg. It isn't even worth talking about. Ryan proposes no cuts of substance (he doesn't plan to cut our overseas, and oversized, military spending at all). He thinks we can just bumble along running up deficits for decades to come. What planet is this guy living on? Endless deficits for decades . . . now that's radical!

Rick Williams' core point about our federal government budget is simple and straightforward. We need to stop talking about cutting spending and actually cut spending! In the upside-down world of Washington D.C., that's radical. But in our real world the American people live in, it's just common sense. So who's right-- is it "radical" to cut government spending? This is what the voters of California will decide on June 5, 2012.