Will the White House refuse to reduce the growth rate of government?
*Texas Straight Talk, by Congressman Ron Paul, March 4, 2013:
''Despite what the media and politicians would have us believe, the
United States did not collapse last Friday when the package of spending
reductions known as 'sequestration' went into effect. The
financial markets hardly blinked, as they have come to be more
skeptical about these periodic government-hyped 'crises.'
What had been portrayed as a drastic reduction in government spending
was merely a decrease in the projected rate of increase in government
spending over the next decade. Under sequestration, government
spending increases by $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years rather than
$2.5 trillion without it.
So we are speeding toward collapse at only 100 miles per hour instead
of 110 miles per hour.
Some in Congress are using the panic over sequestration to justify
another surrender of legislative authority to the executive
branch. These members want to 'pass the buck' on prioritizing
federal programs by giving the president, cabinet officials, and
high-level bureaucrats authority to set spending priorities.
However, it is Congress's job to set priorities in federal spending.
The drafters of the Constitution give the legislature the authority
over spending because they recognized it was a threat to liberty to
allow this power to be concentrated in the executive branch.
Congress's willingness to cede more authority to the executive should
be opposed by everyone who values liberty and limited government.''
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