Politicians of the "progressive" persuasion once again are arguing that a massive new program they are pushing won't add to the humongous deficit they have created for future generations to pay after they are gone.
Their mind numbing mantra is that the huge bill will be paid from savings that will be realized by eliminating -- once again, the familiar chorus -- "waste, fraud, and abuse" from existing programs.
Never mind that such savings never materialize, and don't date ask why they heretofore have tolerated rather than eliminated all the "waste, fraud, and abuse."
Here is where we really could use a trigger. Let's insist that legislation enacting any new program provide that the new program will become effective only upon realization of the offsetting savings from first getting off of the "waste, fraud, and abuse" that is supposed to pay for it.
In other words, demand that they SHOW US THE MONEY FIRST!
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