A Fiscal Shepherd

Fire of Liberty

As we watch the folks in Congress spend countless billions of our tax dollars and of future tax payers by placing up to some 15,268 plus "earmarks" in various budget bills late at night just to deliver "the pork" back home to the people, there are some politicians like Oklahoma's Tom Coburn, that is willing to buck the system and return the Republican half of the Senate back to the fiscal responsible days of Ronald Reagan(Vetoed bill with 121 earmarks) and Dick Armey(1994- 4,126). If you want to learn about Tom Coburn and his efforts to return some sanity to the US Senate by reducing the size of government by eliminating wasteful spending then I'd recommend you read this wonderful piece by George Will . In fact I think you'll be proud to read about a Senator who is willing to stand on the principles that brought him where he is today and shies away from the hot air rhetoric and penchent for spending that some of his fellow colleagues seem to have perfected over the years. Better yet, just read what the fine Senator from Oklahoma has to say about the whole "earmark" mess in D.C. We just need more politicians like Tom Coburn than big spenders like Ted Stevens and Robert Byrd.