Dear Editor,
Regarding David Crisp’s article of January 6th on “Letting the Government Burn”.
What a crock. Mr. Crisp apparently believes, as do way too many others, that its the government’s obligation to spend what they believe is “necessary”, whether that amount is fiscally responsible, or not.
Contrary to Crisp’s opinion, temporarily shutting off the federal feeding trough would not cause the government to “burn”.
What the government HAS been doing, for far too long is burning through more money than they’ve been collecting.
Both parties are equally guilty, but it seems to this writer the Dems are much better at it.
It was one of our forefathers who said, (and I am paraphrasing, badly) as soon as the citizens figure out that they can vote themselves nearly everything they want, our representative republic will be lost.
It is coming to pass right now. Contrary to Crisp’s claim of the United States being a “low tax” nation, we are, not so simply, an “overspending nation”.
Our taxes are comparably lower, perhaps, because we’ve not yet fully embraced socialism. Somebody’s got to pay the bills, and as Maggie Thatcher so famously said, “The problem with socialism is that, eventually, you run out of other people’s money. “
Our country is already running out of money, and we’re not yet a full socialist economy. Mr. Crisp picks on $689k to study parrots, as a noble example of how to spend our tax dollars, yet is mute regarding the $1.7 BILLION to maintain empty, unused Federally owned buildings. That seems fine to Crisp.
Seems to me, Crisp and those like him are over eager to tell me how my money should be spent. However, it’s my money and I’ll oversee its spending, thank you very much. As for our elected representatives, I’d like to see very many more saying “NO” to wasteful, and stupid spending.
Michael Myers
Billings, MT
