Bringing home the bacon is bad national policy these days

There may have been a time it was good national policy. But now this path is our road to destruction. When the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper compliments former Speaker Hastert on his skills in bringing home the bacon, the whole system is displaying symptoms of being rotten to the core. All the projects mentioned in the editorial sound worthy and American, until I think a lot of the money to pay it was borrowed, with interest, some to our adversaries. And like every school child in my school time period, one of the reasons for the US revolution was taxation without representation. Now our leaders and even Sun-Times editorialists are doing the same to our progeny, and bragging about it. This is bad national policy.

Good national policy is doing the basics. If in doubt what that means, read the Constitution as to what the basics might be. Hint: infrastructure maintenance of federally funded bridges is one of them. Hint: import controls and inspections for basic food safety and child toys is one of them. Hint: protecting our borders is one of them. Would not it be wonderful as a voter to match up two candidates in a local election, federal, state, or local, one who’s pledges were just to maintain all we have achieved, which is pretty good.