In case you missed it, check out Stephen Moore’s Our Trillion Dollar Bridge to Nowhere in The Wall Street Journal. It’s sure to make your blood boil. Especially this part:
They should also propose an immediate freeze on federal pay and benefits until the budget is balanced—even furloughs of federal workers to save money. A new report from the Cato Institute shows that federal pay packages are nearly twice as generous as those in the private sector for jobs that require similar skill levels. They should call for the elimination of hundreds of useless and obsolete agencies like the Legal Services Corporation. Finally, they should demand that every penny of TARP money repaid by banks should go into a fund to reduce the debt—rather than allow the Obama administration to create a new slush fund for pet projects.
Moore makes the case that the Republicans should not be bipartisan. He’s right. They need to do everything and anything within their power to stop the democrats from ramming through their radical agenda and put an end to the reckless spending in Washington.
