Tag: Alan Simpson
Sen. Coburn: The Problem With America Is Too Much Government
Sen. Tom Coburn must be listening to Glenn Beck.
“We have way too much government and not enough of what made America great,” Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) told the debt commission last week.
Coburn criticized the amount of government and spending that has created a tremendous amount of debt. “You can not be comfortable with the status quo,” he told his Congressional colleagues as well as commission chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles. ”
History says we’re not going to make it,” Coburn said, citing Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton said that the average age of a Republic was 200 years and eventually “all republics fail.”
“The way forward for America is for everybody to start sacrificing so we create a future that is honoring the tremendous sacrifice that came before us,” he said.
