The slogan is: Starve the Beast! Radio Derb

They will spend it and borrow more if they get it. Tell them to go to hell, the Beast is our greatest enemy! The Government acts as the pre-equine Indians running buffalo off a cliff. 
Now there are Government Indians threatening to run our economy off the cliff. m/r

 The slogan is: Starve the Beast! Radio Derb Transcript
John Derbyshire 12-1-12

 Towards the cliff edge.     One week closer to the fiscal cliff, folks. So far as resolving the issue is concerned, we are pretty much where we were a week ago. The President is negotiating the politics of it with Congress; actually just with John Boehner [Johnny Ray, "Cry"], chief RINO in the House of Representatives.

The negotiations are behind closed doors, so we don't know where they have gotten to. The latest public positions taken have been: Obama — $1.6 trillion more in taxes so that the Feds can, actual quote, "invest in training, education, science, and research." End quote. Not a word from Obama about spending cuts. Boehner: Yes, maybe, could be on some tax increases, but no details until there's some commitment from the administration on spending cuts.

Radio Derb's position here is the simplest, most basic conservatism. The slogan is: Starve the Beast! Governments will find a way to spend anything you give them. As soon as they've gotten some revenue concession out of us, it immediately becomes essential spending, without which the nation could not function, notwithstanding that the nation functioned without it for two hundred and thirty-odd prior years. The problem is spending, the problem is spending. Starve the beast!

Total federal spending for fiscal 2012, the year that ended on September 30, was $3.6 trillion for a population of 315 million, i.e. $11,400 per head. In the year I first came to this country, 1973, the figure was $245,700,000,000, which would be 1.3 trillion in 2012 dollars — allowing for general inflation, that is. The 1973 population was 210 million, so the Feds spent six thousand two hundred 2012 dollars per head back then.

Got that? In constant dollars: 1973 — 6,200 per capita; 2012 — 11,400. So working in constant current dollars, if the Feds today were spending what they spent in 1973, they'd be spending 46 percent less on each one of us — almost half less. In constant current dollars, they'd be spending $5,200 less than they actually, in point of fact, are spending.

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