Obama takes a hatchet to spending

The White House defends the freeze by saying that what President Obama proposes for the nation is nothing more than what families do when times are tough. No, it’s not. When they run short of cash, families sit down and make tough decisions. We’ll spend less on eating out and more on groceries, for example. They don’t say, “We’re going to freeze all spending just the way it is.”

And neither should government. An across-the-board spending freeze is nothing more than a dumb excuse for refusing to make tough decisions. It also perpetuates the myth that discretionary spending is the source of all our fiscal woes, when it actually only represents a small slice of all expenditures.

In fact, according to ABC News, Obama’s spending freeze would affect less than 1 percent of the total federal budget. All the more reason why it’s not worth doing.

As candidate Barack Obama told John McCain in the first presidential debate, a spending freeze is like using a blunt meat-ax when a fine scalpel is needed. Candidate Obama was right; President Obama is wrong.

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