The Deficit Fighters

Moderate Republicans and Democrats of all stripes in the US Congress are dislocating their shoulders by patting themselves on the back so hard as they celebrate averting a Federal government shutdown. They are claiming the title "deficit hawks" as they cut a laughably minuscule thirty-eight billion dollars ($38,000,000,000) from a total of at least 1.6 trillion dollars (and this is not the national debt which already stands at an incomprehensible fourteen trillion dollars but merely the operating deficit of the Federal government). These "painful cuts" are not saving the country but are a joke and an invitation for the nation's conservatives to start a third party that believes in and will give the citizens lower taxes and more limited Federal government.