The Kudzu Economy

On January 14, 2010 I wrote that the Democrats are like kudzu - they deform the political and economic landscape like the kudzu-encrusted forest shown in the picture. There should not be much doubt in anyone's mind at this point that this is true. How's that hopey-changey thang working for you, if you are working at all?

Congress is now debating raising the debt ceiling. It will be raised, but the price exacted had better be serious budget cutting over the next 10 years. If we don't, the kudzu will continue to increase on the economy and we will continue to have sputtering, flat economic growth and the traditional American dream will recede further and further for all of us. It doesn't have to be this way.