Tennessee’s fiscally responsible and practical Sen. Bob Corker points out that the federal government is spending “$4.1 billion a day that we don’t have.”
If that doesn’t concern the president and most members of Congress, it certainly should concern all reasonable American taxpayers. It obviously troubles Corker.
Barring major spending reform, “I will not vote for raising the debt ceiling,” he said emphatically yesterday, as he met members of the news staff of the Times Free Press.
Corker insists, “We’ve got to reduce spending.” He asked, “If we don’t have the courage to deal with it now, when will we have the courage down the road?”
Fortunately, Tennessee’s Sen. Lamar Alexander, Rep. Jimmy Duncan and Rep. Jim Cooper, plus a number of other Democrat and Republican members of Congress around the country, have joined Corker in supporting a bill, the CAP Act, that would curtail federal spending.