President Clinton complains that reducing the deficit is difficult, so he asks help in locating places to spend less money. My 15-year-old nephew can do it:
As the country is short of money, just start no new programs and make no increases in the money allotted next year for existing programs. Then scrutinize the existing programs and cut them.
(Does one really think we need a zillion-dollar Venus probe to see if Venus has big stones or little stones on its surface? Does anyone outside the national teachers union think we need a Department of Education, which we went 180 years without and during whose life education has become worse every year?)
With all his cabinet and all his advisers, President Clinton hadn’t come up with as many practical ideas as my nephew.
Since President Clinton can’t do the job and has broken all the promises he made in the campaign, a resignation looks like his most logical next step.
In the campaign Clinton said he knew how to balance the budget and now he is asking for ideas how to do it. Why not just tell him, “Do what you assured us you knew how to do.”
