The April 11 headline read, “Obama shifts focus to deficit.” A more cynical person than I would wonder: Is that because President Obama has seen the danger of this runaway debt? Or is it because the voters last year stuck his feet into the fire and it is time for damage control? I don’t really care, as long as the president and Congress move toward reining in the avalanche of spending that has gone on for a lot more than the Obama and Bush years. Of course that will involve pain, and we Americans don’t much like pain these days.
I will be eligible for full retirement in three years and would hate to lose any of my “entitlements,” but can I honestly call for fiscal restraint and not be willing to feel the cut of the knife myself? We have been on a fiscal rave for almost 50 years. Sobering up will not be pleasant or easy.
Glenn Durden
Vancouver
