Harold Crumpley: Fiorina wrong, but it would be a fun debate

I don’t like Carley Fiorina for president, but a Fiorina-Clinton (debate) might be entertaining, if not edifying. Most of Fiorina’s ideas and comments are right out of the old GOP playbook.

Rand Paul is right when he says her tax and financial reforms are “not conservative.” In fact, Carley is down right radical in calling for “zero-based budgeting.” If (and it’s a big if) she got her way, most major programs, including health care and defense, would collapse of their own weight.

She’s right-on when she complains that “we don’t even know what we are buying or how much it is costing us.” If you don’t understand this comment, just look at your last billing statement for a hospital stay, ambulance transport, or even lab tests. What was the actual cost? Who paid for what? What happens to the balance when your co-pay and insurance are applied? A general collapse would be painful, especially for the upper-middle class – where the pain has to hit before anything is done about a problem in this country.

This story was originally published November 13, 2015 at 9:11 AM with the headline "Harold Crumpley: Fiorina wrong, but it would be a fun debate."