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Sen. Paul Simon has called for a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That timeless document represents the unique philosophical experiment in freedom we call the United States of America.
It is not something to be changed simply to apologize for the out-of-control debt growth. Besides diverting the energy of Congress from more important matters of interest, the balanced budget amendment represents an opportunistic, calculated dip in principle for Simon.
If a balanced budget amendment is so priceless an idea, why did Simon not propose this legislative-energy expenditure at any time during the deficit-spending spree of the first 12 years of the Reagan-Bush-Clinton administration?
