13 Mar 2013 6:07 pm
What is this fixation the Republicans have with balancing the budget?The new Republican talking point is 'families have to balance their household budgets, so why shouldn't the government have to balance theirs'?But that's not exactly true. Families also have debts, like mortgages and car payments.And if every family had a balanced budget, there would be no such thing as credit card debt.Of course too much debt is not good, and we should work to lower it, but a balanced budget is not really necessary.They are always born again fiscal hawks - when they lose the checkbook. VERY machur.