Article “Toomey fires up the local GOP” reports:
“The United States must control spending or it could be headed down the path that Western Europe is on, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey said Friday…
“We can just adopt the common-sense policies that enabled us to build the most successful and prosperous society in the history of the world,” he said.
“It’s simple principles of limiting the size and cost and scope of government, relying on the free enterprise system, individual initiative and personal responsibility,” he said…
WATCHDOG: What history book has Sen. Toomey been reading? His prescription for prosperity is to repeat all of the 1920s follies that brought on the Great Depression (and more recently the Great Recession) and to jettison the wise regulations and counter recession policies that resulted in prosperity from the 1940s through the end of the twentieth century, at which time the federal deficit was rapidly being reduced.