Gullible Nation - Mona Charen - National Review Online

Gullible Nation - Mona Charen - National Review Online

Responding to the Obama administration’s operatic warnings of catastrophe for meals on wheels for the elderly, Head Start, meat inspections, air-traffic controllers, police, fire fighters, and 911 operators if the government reduces the rate of increase of federal spending by 2 percentage points, radio host Chris Plante offered the following suggestion: “Since this 2 percent obviously covers all essential government spending, let’s cut the other 98 percent!”

Even if these “draconian cuts” are implemented, the federal government will spend more this year than it did last year.

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Another way to think about it is this: In 2007, the government was 40 percent smaller than it is today. Were poor people sleeping under bridges? Were the elderly starving? Were planes grounded? Was food unsafe to eat?

Here’s another question: Are Americans really this gullible? The president’s doom-saying is so absurd that a mature country would hoot him off the stage. As it is, the housebroken media credulously report his obviously partisan scare-mongering as fact.