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Campaign Journal: Harry Truman always said he was searching for a “one armed” economist, so he wouldn’t continually be told, “but on the other hand...”
Yessiree, budget writing in Washington, D.C. is a lot like pinning the tail on the donkey, and it may be true that if you lay all the economists in the world end to end, they will never reach a conclusion.
Government budgeting is an exercise in creative accounting — a shell game, a sham, and a room full of smoke and mirrors. That is why, in the blink of an eye, “surpluses as far as the eye can see” become “deficits as far as the eye can see.”
All of this is relevant to a question raised by Eric Cantor in his first attack on my congressional candidacy.
“Why does Mr. Jones oppose a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution,” he accused, as if I was thus revealed as someone slightly worse than a horse thief.
(My-vote against a flag desecration aefidndment led him to say, “Why does Mr. Jones support burning the American flag?” Flag burning is not something I support, of course, but something I abhor and despise.)
Apparently, Mr. Cantor thinks that the voters are either so naive or ill- informed as to buy into his cheap, misleading rhetoric.
So his question regarding the balanced budget amendment implies, naturally, that I do not support balanced budgets.
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