Reply #9: "How about a spending freeze on everything but defense..."

[leftstreet]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-mance/mccains-spending-freeze-w_b_135859.html

With all the horrible decisions coming out of the McCain/Palin campaign, it's almost like shooting fish in a barrel (or wolves from a helicopter) to point out more failure.

But we shouldn't let McCain get a free-ride on his proposed government spending freeze. If for some fluke of a reason (2000 election, anyone?) McCain wins this thing, his proposed freeze will send us back into the Dark Ages.

During the first debate, McCain's off-the-cuff answer about fixing the ailing economy:
"How about a spending freeze on everything but defense, veteran affairs and entitlement programs."


Some would think after a hot-headed, ill-advised statement like that, the presidential hopeful would try and distance himself -- pretend it never happened.
But instead, he fought back against Barack Obama's previous description of his vast spending freeze, in the final presidential debate saying:
"OK, what -- what would I cut? I would have, first of all, across-the-board spending freeze, OK? Some people say that's a hatchet. That's a hatchet, and then I would get out a scalpel, OK?"

No Senator McCain -- a government spending freeze of "everything but defense, veteran affairs and entitlement programs" is not OK.