A Shot at a Sane Budget

[Marcus Bryant]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/opinion/17krueger.html

[Marcus Bryant]

Discretion is hard for politicians to give up — and briefly satisfying, as dieters know when they dig out those hidden chocolate bars. What will help over time to lessen our appetite for more debt is to remove the temptation, and expectation, that when it comes to the budget we can always spend more than we have.