Letter: Fiscal responsibility isn’t strong suit of our legislators

Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1998 | 11:48 a.m.

By way of illustration, your checkbook shows that you are out $500 and you're only expecting to make $100 this paycheck. You are surprised to find that you made $200. Do you go out and spend? No! You are still out $300. Yet, that is exactly what our legislators have done.

The good-hearted Republicans wanted to give the money back to us in a tax break. It is our money. They put up a weak fight and caved to the ever fiscally irresponsible Democrats. The Democrats, promising to save Social Security, did no such thing as they went on a social spending spree instead.

This country has a checkbook that is trillions of dollars overdrawn. Hard working Americans have to work two jobs just to live and then cough up enough tax revenue to feed this lumbering giant economy.

The right thing to do is to pay off our deficit. Then, in a year when there is a surplus, give the people back their hard-earned money by way of a tax break.

Without common sense in Washington, there is no true representation of the people.

Ed Rosek

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