When you come to the healthy conclusion that they are all liars, all the time. They even lie when Republicans are in office, much less when liberals rule.

See I don’t bother with the figures since they aren’t worth a crap anyway. Or let me put in this way, when was the last time the government ever proposed the cost of a new program and got it anywhere close to right?

It’s great to read threads on Red State about leftists destroying our military, imposing their radically amoral social policies, and etc, but governments are run on budgets. We have to take an active interest in putting a lid on the apocalyptic spending plans of the leftists that are currently in power at all levels of government while devising our own plans for how to allocate our increasingly scarce resources once we regain power.

I realize that Red State is a political site and not an economic journal, but freedom isn’t free. It requires more than just the sacrifice of our brave soldiers. People with good minds and a servant’s heart need to put in the work to understand the economic threats to our way of life. There are maximal tax revenues that can possibly be collected. Foreign financing of our deficits will not be perpetual.

What will happen when the entitlements crisis crowds out our ability to fund our military? What if states make such large promises to their public employees that they can no longer afford jails? What if we can only afford to pay police the minimum wage twenty years from now? What if we are forced to make sudden cuts to Medicare that are so deep as to send localities with large numbers of retirees into economic tailspins?

When someone takes the time to write a long article that does the math and lays out the consequences of policies and how they contrast to their stated goals, please asks some questions and spark some more debate.