Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.