one of the biggest worries and greatest insult to american that the country is becoming more and more like europe. europe financial woes are fodder for jokes but do we live in a glass house. there is this headline? america turns european. the cover article says in the white house and capitol hill there is increw duality that the politicians in europe could be incompetent to handle economic problems a addicted to the last-minute short-term fixes. how with remanaging our own afirs at home? mark stein. america voted for big government in november. what it didn t vote for is the willingness to pay for it. basically, the spending $1 trillion a year you don t have on nothing. nobody can point to what the money goes to. it goes to bureaucracy food stamps and dependency. it doesn t go to anything
trillion dollars a year that you don t have on nothing, nobody can even point to what this money goes to, it goes to bureaucracy and food stamps, and dependency. it doesn t go to anything real. if you keep doing that, you basically signaling to the world that the american era is over. brian: right now do you feel the president understands that or do you think it s another agenda entirely? i think he s got another agenda. what he s done, this is why i disagree with charles krauthammer. the thing to do is to get people used to spending, which is about 25% of gdp. if you got people used to the spending, at some point the people will have to pay for it, the way the belgians and norwegians pay for it. they will to have pay taxes which match what the government is spending. obama figured out if you get them used to the spending, then two, three years down the line, the taxes will fall in his way. brian: the title is depressing, but there is hope,