The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The 9/11 Bubble

I agree we need a hell of a lot more fiscal discipline in Congress and the White House which includes less reliance on tax dollars for future Social Security, health care, and reckless spending, whether on defense or domestic programs. This also means that the pork barrel must shrink and that senior Congressmen must restrain the impulse to spend unnecessarily back home with federal dollars to help insure their longevity. For sanity's sake, the federal budget and deficits must be linked to the near term Gross Domestic Product.