COMMENTARY: Are Americans ready for the impact of cutting spending? Centre County’s Chuck Mason weighs in

(AMERICAN THINKER) Last week brought another balance-the-budget charade to the American people, ending with another fiscal SNAFU – Situation Normal, All…yeah, you know.  It’s a form of glorious national codependency where the American people blame Washington for the gratuitous spending, Washington blames each other, and nothing changes but the increase in national debt.

Consider last week’s wailing and gnashing of teeth as nothing more than a national catharsis that purges our anxiety over impending fiscal doom. We feel better because we drained the angst from our system, but spending remains out of control as the nation drives itself over a fiscal cliff.

Nothing changes because America’s spending crisis can’t be solved.

Not in its present form.

Not without changes the American people refuse to make.

Here’s why.

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