Commit to a balanced budget

Bush, who was the first president to propose a $2 trillion budget, back in 2002, will leave office as the first president to hit $3 trillion with a spending plan.

That makes me sick. So much for fiscal conservatism...

This is the very reason why I support Ron Paul for president.

More than anything else, the President and Congress' inability to do something as simple as balancing a budget (a task that 300 million Americans are faced with every single day) is a symbol of our federal government's inability to make tough choices and its willingness to pass that burden onto the shoulders' of future generations of Americans.

A balanced budget is just common sense. If you spend $X, taxes must bring in $X. You can't spend $Y but only raise $X because it makes for a better campaign pledge. Yes, there are times when the government must run at a deficit, but the financial instability of our government is less a result of economic necessity than it is of bad government and bad governors.

If we can't trust Washington to do something as simple as balancing a budget, how can we trust them to solve the DIFFICULT problems we face as a nation?