LET THE CUTTING BEGIN

There is an old saying in medicine whenever one is dealing with an open wound or a contaminated laceration: "The solution to pollution is dilution."

In some cases the more dilution the better. And when it comes to pollution, you can forget about carbon dioxide and ozone layers. What we're talking about here is government pollution.

From the silly legislation that prevents start-up businesses from starting up to burdensome, complicated tax codes more mysterious than the Da Vinci Code to wasteful government spending that would make every drunken sailor who ever lived blush, it's as obvious as Barney Frank's sexual preference: Too many chits out, too many IOUs, the sum and substance of politics everywhere.

Now before all you epithet-hurlers get worked too tight, Mr. Frank has publicly avowed his preference; that makes it a statement of fact, one of public record. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so too must be malice. No malice intended here, just fact.

Irrigating a wound helps remove the unwanted bacteria and debris. The wrong bacteria in the wrong place is just another name for debris. And that's what government waste has become, just so much debilitated, dead debris that will soon include, if something sensible isn't done, the U.S. dollar, DOA. And the answer sure isn't passing out more heroine to the addicted like New York Times columnist and left-wing economist Paul Krugman keeps pimping.

Infections frequently have to be opened and drained to let all the waste and harmful debris out. Krugman's prescription calls for kicking the can further down the road, arguing the US debt problem is relatively small compared to other developed countries.
Krugman and his ilk apparently believe the possibility of septicemia isn't wound specific.

As is sometimes the case with wounds, irrigation often isn't enough. Unwanted waste must be excised. That usually means taking a scalpel and some scissors to cut away the unwanted so the remaining healthy tissue can flourish. That's just about where we are today as a nation.

So forget all that political nonsense about bipartisanship; it never was and never will be. Just send your elected official a scalpel and a pair of scissors.