Recommended: The 'Californiazation' of America

I highly recommend David Ignatius' piece in today's Washington Post, The 'Californiazation' of America. I think he is absolutely right that the federal government suffers from the same problem that many states suffer from - the irresistible temptation to buy votes with government programs while not owning up to the need to pay for them with taxes.

This is not a Republican or Democratic problem - it is a problem across our entire political spectrum.

Karl Marx had it right (for once): "Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation."”