Throw The Bums Out
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=294621585202022
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Elections: U.K. voters resoundingly rejected the Labour Party in local elections last week. It was no capricious shift, but a citizen revolt against trendy carbon and nanny-state taxes that empower only bad government.
The article points out that other Western European countries are “throwing the bums out” as well. Could this be a harbinger of things to come for the U.S.? Maybe we will retire some of our gleeful tax and spenders this November.
Here’s hoping.
~~John Cronin~~
The “very big moment,” as Tory chief David Cameron put it, echoed conservative victories in France, Germany, Sweden and Italy and signaled Britain’s alignment with them. The reason was also largely the same — costly, overweening and unresponsive government that does what big governments do best: fail.
