Good question.

Step one: If other people have done something and gotten miserable failure out of it every time it's been tried, it might be time to give that particular solution a rest.

There has been one point I have tried to make more than once over the past couple of months. It has been ignored, and ignored hard. The only solution we are given by one party in this country - to every problem - is more powerful government, more taxes, and more spending. Leftists like Krugman and John Atchinson complain about how good things were years ago when government wasn't "the problem." How if we just got back to the Good Old Days of sufficient government spending, things would work again.

I did the research. I found out that in none of the categories mentioned in such articles were we spending less now (adjusting for inflation) than we were, say, in 1975. And in most categories, we are spending far more, and for fewer results. This is particularly obvious in public and higher education. To put it in a nutshell, in those "good old days" when things were "working," the Federal budget was a third what it is now, and its role in everything was a hell of a lot less.

Typically, this would be considered an important piece of information as far as the basic theory goes. It wasn't. At least not here.

So where is the real "compromise" point? The actual "middle ground?" If you look at all the information and history, an ironclad case could be made that we passed the "middle ground" in the wrong direction quite a while ago. We spent $3.6 trillion this year, of which $1.3 trillion was deficit. If government spending was the criteria for prosperity, champagne should be running in our streets. If European socialism was the answer, Europe wouldn't be circling the drain.

In short, we've done "compromise" already. It didn't work. I'm tired of people telling me there's a healthy mix of milk and cyanide, if we just get the right percentages.

The Left is no longer playing with all its marbles, and the only real solution right now is defeating them in elections.