Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.
I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.

