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
somebody who is about fiscal responsibility first, that for the first time since the house went to the republicans, they were divided on a major issue? yeah, i think they re right to be divided because in a sense, america voted for big government in november. what it didn t vote for is the willingness to pay for it. we have the biggest gap between revenue and spending of any major nation on earth. so people have got to get real about it. if you want swedish style government, you have to pay swedish style government. if you don t, you got to grow up and learn to live within your means. brian: when you say there should be another fight, do you think america has the stomach for another fight, this over the debt ceiling, one in which the president says i refuse to have? yeah, and i would bet he gets his way. i would bet that in the end, we ll have some yet another fake fix on the debt ceiling. the fact of the matter is, this cannot go on. we re borrowing $188 million an