Be responsible, fund the cost, both the ongoing and past costs of the wars in Iraq and Afganistan and the ongoing cost of the enhanced prescription benefit for Medicare beneficiaries. Its time to stop blaming and grandstanding. You approved these appropriations now have the decency to approve measures to pay for them!
Why is this important?
In our country the national media would have you believe that all of us either believe in lowering taxes to solve our national problems or increasing spending on social programs. I believe there are many of us who have a more mature understanding of finances and our national political reality.
