I have always promoted the fact that pennies make dollars.
Sibelious is launching a new "educational "program to teach us how to get more out of reading food labels...$50,000,000.

Just these two programs are just shy of a quarter of a billion dollars.

The only shortage of funding is for those programs that result in benefits to we the people.

The group responsible for coming up with ways to reduce waste and spending are meeting at the Ritz Carlton!!!

All the politicians think they are saying the right words while their actions send a completely different message.
First is, they don't care.
Second is the so called lack of money is for we the people benefits, NOT elected officials.

The irony? The money comes from we the people.....except what they borrow.

How about we all demand our representatives do not support any spending that does not result in a DIRECT benefit to we the people.
How about, if we have no money, we start by cutting out all foreign aid? Oh how heartless eh? OK reduce it all by 50% starting tomorrow morning.

How about our representatives treating spending like we all have to do in our lives?

Naw. Let's just keep doing business as usual and wait for a crisis to knee jerk a fix. Remember Rahm Emanuel's credo....never let a good crisis go to waste!!
Our government works on the theory of fire fighting and not fire prevention.
To be more accurate the really operate on the basis of do nothing until the flames can be seen and we feel the heat.

Sound too negative? It is just a reflection of our current modus operendi.

btk