Government Spending

This is funny if it wasn't so true.  Today, I was searching through some old files looking for some thing else when I came across an old program for the Republican State Convention, June 18-19, 1976, Fort Worth, Texas, to which I was a delegate.  On the back is a full page ad for Wes Mowery for Congress. It reads:  "It's time to put a lid on government spending" with a artist's rendering of the nation's capitol building with a giant lid over the dome.

Obviously "government spending" is not a new phenomena.  It has been with us as long as we've had government, and obviously it keeps expanding exponentially as evidenced by today's situation.  As long as they have the authority to tax they will spend, and the more they can tax the more they will spend.  When they cannot tax enough they borrow to spend even more.

I'm an old man and I know I will not live to see it end.  In fact, I dare say there is not a person alive today that will live long enough to see an end to it.  There is no end.