Detroit News concludes that, yeah, there's nothing new in their message: It's a much-needed back to basics.
"Oh yeah? Wacha gonna cut? Huh? Huh?" Shout the screaming lefties. Obama, like all good liberal demagogues, slyly suggests that they want to kill old people and starve children. It's lefty propaganda, but there is a grain of truth.
No Easy Cuts
There are no easy cuts, so those of us who want to shrink government need to do some thinking.
The Left Way: The Center for American Progress, a progressive organization, has taken their stab at balancing the budget. The document, A Thousand Cuts, seems designed more to scare people off of the small government path, but at least it is a serious and sincere effort.
The Right Way: Paul Ryans Roadmap. It's a thing of beauty, and it's been scored by the CBO. As a bonus, the website is attractive and easy to navigate. Most important, the roadmap is not the end of the discussion. Ryan himself portrays it as a starting point for a national dialogue, and Americans are ready for such as discussion.
You can also go read the Pledge to America... If you can find it. Google it and every hare-brained commentary on it will show up ahead of the GOP's official site. Then, when you finally find it, it's a damned pdf document that's 10 bajillion gigabytes and takes forever to load. The Republicans, God bless 'em, are so inept and rolling stuff like this out.
