Introit

So I'm back in action, and hopefully my old sparring partner is on his way.

The first thing I want to talk about is the budget deal that was all over NPR this morning. It's a goddamned joke, kids, and a pathetically sad one at that. Our fearless leaders, titans of history, grappled mightily with the fearsome problems of our time and managed to cut $78.5 billion (total, including cuts already enacted in the various continuing resolutions) from our budget of approximately $3,820 billion. The cuts amount to 2% of the budget and about 4.75% of our deficit, which is 1,650 billion.

That's it? Really? All the hoopla and anguish and bold promises and visions of cataclysm and that's all we've managed to accomplish? And despite the fact that these cuts amount to a rounding error, Gary Hart thinks they call the very nature of our society into question. Seriously.

I hate to start my blog with a pretty ordinary political post, but I swear it'll get better! I've got some thoughts on the Austrian business cycle theory I'm going to write up, as well as some thoughts on freed v. free markets, revolutions, and where a true free marketeer is on the political spectrum.