Kathleen Vaux

Congress blames us after raiding our cookie jar

Editor,

Sequestration: the word is larger than it appears to be. Budget cuts that affect the military complex will undoubtedly trickle through our entire local economies, putting individuals and  commercial business in jeopardy with far reaching implications.

None of this had to happen. Our elected officials have bickered, fought, and failed to do the only job they were sent to do—manage the budget of our country, financing only those things that needed finance. 

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