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Published April 15, 2008 01:31 pm - Column Here’s a political pipe dream: Stop at zero By Steve Boggs WEATHERFORD DEMOCRAT (WEATHERFORD, Texas) Tune out the noise this election season.
Nobody’s telling you the truth, and that won’t change no matter who gets elected. Even if it did, we as Americans probably don’t want to hear it in the first place. Universal health care? Baloney. Fix Social Security? As if. Tax rebates and tax cuts for education? Forget it. Expand the military? Good luck. None of these proposals can go anywhere until one simple thing is done first: Stop at zero. In only two of the past 30 years has the U.S. government taken in more than it spent. As a result, our government is $9.2 trillion in debt. This past year, the interest on that debt alone was $406 billion. That’s more than the annual budget for education, transportation and all branches of government combined. It’s a staggering number. So much so that when we hear shortsighted solutions like cutting foreign aid, or ending NASA, it generates quite a chuckle. Both these programs are less than $4 billion. A lot of money, but only a speck in a $3 trillion budget. 
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