We did it before - we CAN do it again!

There's a fantastic Forbes column by Richard Salsman which I wrote about at my other blog, The Morality War, when the column was first published.

Here's (part of) what I wrote about it:

Here's a great column by Richard Salsman who argues that, yes, there really was a time when it was possible to cut the federal budget - and by susbstantially more than the measly 2% or whatever that the Republicans are currently promising:

U.S. federal spending was cut by 5% in the year through July 1960 compared to the year earlier, and cut by 10% during a previous two-year period (1954-1955), but the biggest cut came with the “demobilization” after World War II. Total federal spending was slashed from a peak of $93 billion in 1945 to $55 billion in 1946, $35 billion in 1947 and $30 billion in 1948, before rising again.

The total, three-year reduction in federal outlays after World War II (1945-1948) was 68% of the prior peak spending level.

The fact that the federal budget was cut - and the cuts were initiated by Democrats! - certainly gives the lie to complaints that too much cutting would be catastrophic.

We cut the budget by TWO-THIRDS! AND we survived!

Yes, I get that we had just ended a major war during which we were spending a lot of extra money. But too many people seem to think that an outbreak of peace is no excuse to let go of all those lovely tax dollars - and the power that goes along with them.

This is why I am so heartened by Rand Paul's proposal to cut 4 TRILLION DOLLARS (!!!!!) from the federal budget. Finally, a legislator with the guts to do something genuinely radical! THE biggest threat to American liberty right now is the runaway growth of government, and Senator Paul's proposal addresses this in a genuinely fundamental way that no one else seems willing to even hint at.

This gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, the Tea Party movement will actually amount to something, rather than merely giving social conservatives a platform to promote their tired old agenda which only gives the government more power, not less.

In fact, if Rand Paul was running for President, I'd be ready to vote for him right now!