Comments on: How did the national debt get so big? http://healthcare-economist.com/2009/05/08/how-did-the-national-debt-get-so-big/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:10:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom http://healthcare-economist.com/2009/05/08/how-did-the-national-debt-get-so-big/comment-page-1/#comment-3745 Tom Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:52:25 +0000 http://healthcare-economist.com/?p=2366#comment-3745 Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Edgar basically saying pork projects in general, etc is what caused the National debt? Aren't we all tired of the bleeding hearts saying, "it's for the children" we already know that children have been having babies for the past 30 years. I can understand ANYONE making a mistake and getting pregnant. We then give them a housing allowance, food stamps, medical care, etc. Then low and behold they go out and get pregnant again and we double the money their already receiving...why? I subscribe to the fool me once shame on you...fool me twice shame on me! From here on out, NO person shall receive any Governmental subsidy that wasn't earned if they do not submit to drug testing and from this day forward if you get pregnant and can't or won't provide the Fathers name of the child you just delivered you'll receive no benefits from the Government. In closing, since when did we become a society of bleeding hearts? Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t Edgar basically saying pork projects in general, etc is what caused the National debt?

Aren’t we all tired of the bleeding hearts saying, “it’s for the children” we already know that children have been having babies for the past 30 years. I can understand ANYONE making a mistake and getting pregnant. We then give them a housing allowance, food stamps, medical care, etc. Then low and behold they go out and get pregnant again and we double the money their already receiving…why? I subscribe to the fool me once shame on you…fool me twice shame on me!

From here on out, NO person shall receive any Governmental subsidy that wasn’t earned if they do not submit to drug testing and from this day forward if you get pregnant and can’t or won’t provide the Fathers name of the child you just delivered you’ll receive no benefits from the Government.

In closing, since when did we become a society of bleeding hearts?

]]> By: Jimmy Bastiat http://healthcare-economist.com/2009/05/08/how-did-the-national-debt-get-so-big/comment-page-1/#comment-3133 Jimmy Bastiat Tue, 12 May 2009 00:43:31 +0000 http://healthcare-economist.com/?p=2366#comment-3133 Correct me if I'm wrong, but the public choice theorists call this "logrolling." Correct me if I’m wrong, but the public choice theorists call this “logrolling.”

]]> By: jim jaffe http://healthcare-economist.com/2009/05/08/how-did-the-national-debt-get-so-big/comment-page-1/#comment-3120 jim jaffe Mon, 11 May 2009 01:12:21 +0000 http://healthcare-economist.com/?p=2366#comment-3120 Rep. Edgar was certainly one of the good guys, but I wonder about his math. He seems to suggest that public works -- water projects in particular -- have created today's deficits and that social spending gets the blame. Money is, of course, fungible, but I think we're giving the Corps of Engineers too much credit here and would welcome an analysis that gave us the relative order of magnitude of the two groups. You don't have to be a conservative to conclude that ongoing spending -- which includes social programs like entitlements as well as defense -- is the culprit. One-time expenses like water projects are insignificant, although sometimes quite useful. Rep. Edgar was certainly one of the good guys, but I wonder about his math. He seems to suggest that public works — water projects in particular — have created today’s deficits and that social spending gets the blame. Money is, of course, fungible, but I think we’re giving the Corps of Engineers too much credit here and would welcome an analysis that gave us the relative order of magnitude of the two groups.

You don’t have to be a conservative to conclude that ongoing spending — which includes social programs like entitlements as well as defense — is the culprit. One-time expenses like water projects are insignificant, although sometimes quite useful.

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