From the Wall Street Journal:
…Put simply: Our country is on the path toward bankruptcy. We must turn around before it’s too late, and the Roadmap offers a clear plan for doing so. But it does more than just fend off disaster. CBO calculations show that the Roadmap would also help create a “much more favorable macroeconomic outlook” for the next half-century. The CBO estimates that under the Roadmap, by 2058 per-person GDP would be around 70% higher than the current trend.
Is Rep. Ryan’s Roadmap perfect? Of course not—no government plan ever is. But it’s the best plan on the table at a time when doing nothing is no longer an option.
Let’s not settle for the big-government status quo, which is what the president’s commission offers. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to make these tough decisions so that they might inherit a prosperous and strong America like the one we were given.
Ryan’s plan offers us a way out of the impasse – the system where we’re committed to national bankruptcy by adherence to the failed, Keynesian economic policies of the New Deal and Great Society. Palin points out earlier in her piece that the deficit commission does nothing to really tackle entitlements and, indeed, offers a back door to a single-payer health plan as ObamaCare costs skyrocket. The only reasonable plan we have right now for long term fiscal stability is Ryan’s – and Palin is right to back it.
We should make the Ryan plan a centerpiece of our 2011 legislative effort and, as Obama and Reid will block implementation, our major issue heading in to 2012. Palin’s actions here allow us the opportunity to start pressing our weak-kneed Congressional GOP on the matter. Most of them are simply afraid to tackle entitlement reform as that will open the GOP to a Democrat smear campaign in 2012. Trouble is that we’re going to get that smear campaign whether we act on entitlements or no – and, additionally, I think the American people are ready for a serious debate on the matter; now is the time to act.
By default, Sarah Palin is becoming the GOP leader. While there is much to be said in favor of Speaker-elect Boehner as well as some others in the Congressional GOP, none of them – other than Ryan – have really stepped up to offer the radical yet simple solutions necessary to solve our problems. Sarah Palin is showing she has the raw guts necessary to do the right thing – it probably helps that she’s been slandered continually for more than two years by the left and has thus developed the thickest of political skins. But however that came about, she’s the person standing forth and leading the way. A bit more of this and she’ll have the 2012 GOP nomination wrapped up easily, if she decides to run.
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