Unfortunately, runaway spending is not a new thing to Washington.  In August 2010, the Heritage Foundation posted the following graph:

Washington politicians are continuing to spend money they simply do not have.  That is why there is a discussion of “raising the debt ceiling.”  Think about that a minute.  What they want to do is increase the amount of money they can borrow.  There is no interest in fiscal discipline.  This is like a person who calls his credit card company after losing his job and saying, “I know my credit card is maxxed out, but I have lost my job and I need a higher credit limit.”  Obviously, you would feel sympathy for the person–he just lost his main source of income–but would you raise his credit limit?  America has not lost it’s main source of income–it has simply spent too much.  There is no reason to raise the credit limit.  The only way I would support raising the credit limit is with some REAL cuts in spending.  It’s not about the revenue–it’s about the spending.