What got us into this in the first place is politicians divorcing how much the government raises in revenues from how much the government spends.

Grover Norquist is just one symptom of this problem.

Another is the government which believes it can just keep increasing the budget every year without actually looking at what we are spending on.

A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you are talking about real money. (apologies to Senator Dirksen)

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. - Paul Fix