From Jane Chastain:
This is the time to watch your representatives in Washington. If you will pay attention to these people for the remaining weeks this year, you could save your country billions of dollars and knock thousands off your tax bill for years to come.
The new fiscal year began on Oct. 1, and the new Democrat-led Congress is just now getting around to passing the dozen or so appropriations bills that make up the federal budget.
Congress traditionally is late with this essential task, but this is its worst performance in the last 20 years. The biggest problem is all the rhetoric that was expended by Democrats on how they were going to get a handle on runaway spending – especially those wasteful pork barrel projects that ballooned during the last 12 years under Republican rule. All that hot air is now hitting the fan, and the blowback has greedy politicians of both political stripes running for cover.
It would be comical if the end result weren't so damaging to the average family's budget. The sad part of all of this is that – unless you are willing to pay attention (and most people won't) – your member of the House of Representatives and your two senators will find a way to explain their way out of the part they played in passing the bills that contain billions of dollars in waste. You will keep right on electing these culprits who ought to be unceremoniously dumped at the earliest opportunity.
