Some of you may have heard there is a some discussion going on in Washington that relates to debt and spending and tax rates for rich people job creators. I am just now learning about this since I was previously focused on the country's real problem of professional football players missing training camp.
As one would expect, fiscally agitating senator Tom Coburn is plopping himself right in the middle of this maelstrom. An on-again/off-again member of the "Gang of Six" tasked with creating a bipartisan solution to a crisis which will destroy the economy or save the economy — a prediction relying entirely on whether you like the president or not. Unsurprisingly, Coburn's input is almost exclusively to solve the situation with cutting of government waste. To prove it was out there, he investigated money the federal government was sending to his home state to determine how it was being misused. (Sidenote: I appreciate the honor of focusing on his own backyard, but wouldn't it have been better to look at the other 49 states where the "waste" is not directly helping his constituents?)