Thursday, May 29, 2014
Nobody’s in Charge - Rich Tucker
After reading this, it's difficult to disagree...
Rich Tucker explains this in a recent post at Townhall.com:
"If you disagree with government-as-ATM, you ought to be able to campaign against the politicians who are making the spending decisions. But you cannot. Last year, two-thirds of all federal spending was automatic. That means lawmakers had no control over it; it just happened. As payments for the 'Big Four' (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and interest on the debt) increase, the amount of automatic spending will as well.
Even for the third or so of the federal government that isn’t on autopilot, it’s difficult to argue that elected lawmakers are actually calling the shots.
Most of the important decisions these days in Washington, D.C., about spending and policy in general, are made by unelected bureaucrats -- 'experts,' as Progressives like to call them."
