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American leaders can’t resist' overspending year after year. Show that you deserve to be leaders by actually leading. And that leads to ...
• Everything’s on the table. We know that there’s not enough money to pay for the programs that we already have. So that means that either taxes have to be raised or something’s got to be cut, or both.
So nothing, and I mean nothing, should be sacrosanct. Everything that costs taxpayer money needs to be examined, evaluated and prioritized. And then programs - even programs of long duration and with great constituencies — need to be cut out completely.
It is unseemly that we cannot seem to get politicians who can stay within a budget. Just once I’d like to hear a lawmaker say that we can’t' afford something, because then I’d know that he or she is telling the truth.
* Remember who you are. In case you had forgotten, Congress is an equal part of the federal government. Like the president and the Supreme Court, Congress is endowed with certain, specified powers. The last Congress forgot that. They thought that they had been elected to do the President’s bidding on all matters, and for the most part, they did.
Now you should remember that the American people have given you the power to oversee the operations of the executive branch. Use it wisely.
We as Americans need to know some things about the working of this government. Specifically, how much is the war in Iraq costing us? lb this date, no one seems to be able
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