Our Leaders are Either Liars or Fools

Our Leaders are Either Liars or Fools

Yes that is a bold statement.  I feel confident that my allegations can be supported by logic. Take the fiscal cliff "compromise."  By mostly tax increases, and some spending reductions, it trims $620 billion over ten years.  It also spends an additional $331 billion over the same ten-year period.

So, the big hullabaloo is over $289 billion over ten years, or $28.9 billion a year.  To us normal humans, that sounds like a lot. 

But when you realize that we've overspending by  $1,000 billion a year, then the $28.9 sounds like the chump change it is, at only 2% of our deficit.  Be still my heart!

We went through all this contention over nothing.  It doesn't matter, and only a fool or a liar would say different.