Mark Anderson:
- The last administration spent more money from current funds, and indebted us more deeply into the future, than any in history.
- Called “starve the beast,” it is a much-discussed strategy of spending the US into oblivion while in power, so that the following party has no dry ammunition with which to carry out its programs.
- Carried further, it suggests a gluttony of spending while in power, so that services, and the government itself, is forced into contraction.