@hardnox604008 wrote:
Of course this is purely hypothetical because Romney/Ryan had no real intention whatsoever of balancing the budget- they were obviously going to go the Reagan/Shrub route of running bigger deficits via lower taxes and more defense spending.
But anyway, suppose an austerian consensus was in power. The country would be going through a terrible depression- and actually not be closing the deficit any because tax revenues would dry up faster than spending could be cut.
But the coalition is hitting all the cues on social legislation plus, say, little symbolic things like drug testing everyone on public assistance, building a border fence and running massive sweeps to scoop up aliens etc. which would just tickle the hell out of the mean bone in every "conservative's" body.
So, as "conservatives" take the American empire down the tubes to the pure delight of the islamofascists (and the horror of the zionists, who would be thoroughly screwed) , who is to stop them? Clearly once committed there is no choice but to call for more.
Everything you describe happens when the left run out of other people's money. The answer is capitalism, not government control.
