Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008 | 2:04 a.m.
Ken Anderson had it partially right in his Saturday letter to the editor headlined “To win, McCain must be honest about Bush”:
President Bush has not been a very good leader in many areas. However, unless the next president leads and stands up to Congress, we will not see many changes that matter.
The next president, be he Obama or McCain, must insist that Congress does the following: Ensure that tax revenues are sufficient to cover government expenditures — in other words, a balanced budget and no more accounting gimmicks and deficits.
To accomplish this goal two things need to happen: Some government programs must be eliminated and taxes on some group must be raised. I don’t hear either McCain or Obama talking about that in any detail, which leads me to believe that despite all their rhetoric, it’s going to be business as usual in 2009 and beyond.
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