Hope everyone had a great Independence Day weekend. Now it is back to some blogging. Here we have Colin Powell talking the other day about how our President is doing to much. We will compare this to what Powell said a couple of months ago.
Colin Powell the other day: "The right answer is, 'Give me a government that works,'" the former secretary of state said in a television interview to be aired Sunday. "Keep it as small as possible," added Powell. "We can't pay for it all," Powell said. "And I never would have believed that we would have budgets that are running into the multi-trillions of dollars, and we are amassing a huge, huge national debt that, if we don't pay for in our lifetime, our kids and grandkids and great grandchildren will have to pay for it."
WOW really? You can't believe we would have had budgets in the multi-trillions of dollars. This guy is unreal.
In his 1996 speech to the Republican National Convention. He said then that the nation no longer could afford more entitlements, higher taxes and more bureaucracy. In the interview with CNN's "State of the Union" that is to air Sunday, Powell said he hasn't changed his mind.
"Keep it as small as possible. Keep the tax burden on the American people as small as possible.
He said Obama "has to start really taking a very, very hard look at what the cost of all this is. And, how much additional bureaucracy and will it be effective bureaucracy."
What? Effective bureaucracy? Is there such a thing? It is kind of an oxymoron if you ask me.
Now lets take a look at what Powell said just a few short months ago.
"Americans do want to pay taxes for services," he said. "Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less."
Sorry General, you can't have it both ways. Either more government in your life, or less like our Founding Fathers believed.
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