David Gregory closed this morning’s edition of Meet the Press with the following statement about the newly enacted healthcare bill and Republican promises to repeal it:
It’s very difficult to take away a benefit from the American people once it’s been given.
To even the casual observer of American politics and governance this is no revelation. Nevertheless, far too few have bothered to consider its consequences.
Even a six year old knows that when you don’t stop blowing air into a balloon, it bursts. Similarly, if cowardly¹ elected officials continue to blow up government without ever letting any of the air out, government will grow until it bursts – or at least until it becomes moot because the increased taxes needed to sustain it causes the economy to burst.
This unavoidable, albeit serially repressed, fact is at the heart of the widespread and virulent opposition to the Obama administration’s geometric explosion of government.
Unabated growth of government is frightening and should be.²
Footnotes:
¹ The reason David Gregory’s comment is universally acknowledged is because politicians have historically lacked the testicular fortitude to cut entitlements for fear of incurring the wrath of the electorate.
² It is especially frightening when we have to borrow money to do it.
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