[ilgipper]

Congress is the one with the spending problem. The problem lies there. Bush has enabled them, unfortunately, by not taking stand. No one on that end of Penn. Avenue should be complaining about spending.

[hedgetrimmer]

Congress is the one with the spending problem

Both branches of government are culpable. Remember how the Bush administration unlawfully held over the CAFTA vote til they got a majority? How they went to congressmen that had voted no, and by promising them pork barrel projects for their districts, got some to change their votes? Bush and Clinton both have refined the art of giving way federal tax money to achieve their political aims. That is not an honorable way to run a government, IMO and one reason we have such a spending problem.

The other part is the amount of federal money going out as subsidies to transnational corporations to create 'business environments' in targeted third world countries. They call it "trade capacity development" and it is costing the taxpayer BIG TIME, and costing our domestic economy its health.