Luxury versus necessity

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Congress and the Budget -- Why Doesn't Congress Understand the How Dire Our Fiscal Situation Really Is?

By Penny Young Nance

Published April 04, 2011

Luxury versus necessity.

That’s the debate around every kitchen table these days, and it is reflected in Congress. American families need to cut back and stretch their budgets, and Congress needs to cut way back in order to regain some semblance of fiscal sanity.

But while American families deal painfully in reality, some members of Congress are divorced from reality. Freshman Republican congressmen — straight from the kitchen table — look at a federally funded program supporting “cowboy poetry” as a luxury, while the Senate Majority Leader — who has been in Washington for 24 years, literally one-third of his life — says his state of Nevada can’t live without its federally funded, annual “cowboy poetry” event.

Think of how this would sound at the kitchen table as a husband and wife discuss tightening their belts in order to make their family budget work.

HE: “We’re really in a financial hole and the only way out is to cut back, no question.”

SHE: “But honey, you know I can’t live without the Nieman Marcus furs?”

To spend or not to spend - that is NOT the question

Congress will never understand the peons they're alleged to "serve".

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