It's not rocket science

Here we are, over a year and a half into the most arrogant, ideologically blinded, incompetent administration America has seen in living memory. So, how are we doing?

National Debt: $13.3 Trillion and counting. With the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare? $107 Trillion, at least(yipe!).

Unemployment? Still at 9.5%. Counting those who are underemployed or who've simply given up looking(or see no need to look as long as their unemployment benefits continue to be extended ad infinitum)? Ouch.

The economy is crap, the country's broke, and the Obama administration is clueless. They're lashing out at anyone who criticizes them even slightly, including the Leftist media. They're repeatedly pouring gasoline on the inferno that is our economy, and simply can't understand why the fire isn't going out.

We know how to fix this. It's not a big mystery. It's not some esoteric question of the universe, answerable only by some guru sitting on a remote mountaintop somewhere in the Himalayas. It's been done before, within the lifetime of all those involved.

Cut spending. Cut taxes. Cut regulations. When you do this, the economy grows. It's been proven. When you regulate and tax everything and everyone in sight, the economy stagnates. Again, it's been proven.

'Yes, we can' have a strong, vibrant economy that advances the human condition, boosts innovation and productivity, and improves the lot of all of humanity in the long run. But the only way to do this is to get government out of the way. When it comes to a nation's economic health, government is not the solution--government is the problem.

Unfortunately, no one in the current regime can, or wants to, see the clear evidence of history. They're absolutely certain that they can control, plan, regulate, tax, borrow and spend us into prosperity. What they fail to realize is that the laws of economics exist, and are just as real as the laws of physics and mathematics. We can ignore them, but we will not be able to ignore the consequences of ignoring them.

We can still turn things around--for now. But the longer we roll down this disastrous hill, the harder the climb back up.