Amid our nation’s ongoing financial and economic crisis, some have called for Washington to put together a commission to come up with solutions.
“Studying the problem” always sounds like a good idea, of course, but there is no reason to think another commission, “study group,” “blue-ribbon panel” or whatever you may want to call it is going to find solutions that have thus far escaped everyone’s notice.
If a federal commission were the answer to our fiscal troubles, the flood of commissions put together over the past few decades surely would have ended those troubles long ago.
Sen. Jim DeMint, a conservative Republican from South Carolina, put together an informative video pointing out both the massive rise in federal spending and debt over many years and some of the numerous commissions that have been formed to address spending and debt during that time period.
DeMint listed a total of 17 such panels, stretching from President Ronald Reagan to President Barack Obama.