“A BILLION HERE, A BILLION THERE, AND PRETTY SOON YOU ARE TALKING REAL MONEY”
That’s what Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican Senate Minority Leader from Illinois, said about government spending sixty-four years ago at a Republican leadership press conference. It has been pointed out that “A government that spends more than it takes in eventually discovers that math doesn’t vote.” Our federal government and the Democratic Party in the state of Washington will experience the reality of that quote unless they change their approach to government spending & taxation. As a lifelong Democrat, it…