IN CASE YOU MISSED IT… Sen. Rick Scott in The Washington Post: Big Government Causes Problems

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In case you missed it, Senator Rick Scott wrote a Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post outlining how big government is making life worse for working Americans, as the national debt hit $39 trillion last week.

Senator Scott's letter was a response to a George Will's column, which describes the looming impacts of America's exponentially increasing debt. Senator Scott points out that those consequences are already taking hold in our economy.

In his LTE, Senator Scott wrote, "After the national debt hit $39 trillion, Will noted, as I have for years, that Congress's reckless spending has put our country on the path to economic ruin.

For decades, Congress has fueled its spending spree by borrowing from our children and grandchildren's futures to pay Communist China interest on our debt. We'll likely hit the $40 trillion mark before November's midterm elections.

As infuriating as that is, it's not news. Everyone knows Washington has a devastating spending problem.

There is no way to tax or borrow ourselves out of this hole. Every place that Washington has forced big government into our lives has hurt us.

Big government has made the cost of living explode and is threatening to destroy the American Dream. This is especially true for younger Americans, who have been royally screwed by Washington's failures and the massive costs they've created.

Housing, child care, health care, college tuition, starting a business, everything you can think of is harder and more expensive because big government got involved.

Big government causes problems; free markets solve problems.

America is the greatest nation on earth. We can and must have safety nets, so folks don't fall through cracks. But unless we radically shrink the size and power of the federal government, no safety net can exist and the American Dream will die.

This isn't a problem to fix tomorrow; the ship is sinking today. If your representative in Congress thinks big government can fix it, vote them out."

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