Should there be Congressional hearings investigating mirror and glass manufacturers?
A significant percentage of their production must be defective. How else does one explain the large number of us failing to see the hypocritical, self-absorbed, responsiblity-avoiding, finger-pointing, self-righteous, SOB's standing in font of our mirrors? I do

Are you offended by the tax service commercials where smiling faces crow about only paying a small percentage of the taxes they owed? I am.
Sure, I avoid every dollar of taxation I legally can. However, when "my tab" has been determined, I pay what tax laws and regulations say I owe (on occaion with penalties and interest). Seems like these folks chose to do spend money without regard to their tax liabilities and are now bragging about getting away with it.

Will someone explain to me how in one sentence you can complain about the quality of the job government is doing in serving or protecting you as a taxpaying citizen, and in next sentence support cutting the funds they have to do the job?
Whenever, I am in a long, slow-moving line at some government office (where only 2 of 5 service windows are open) and folks in line are grumbling, I always wonder, out loud, if that $30 tax cut which allegedly improved the overall quality of my life had anything to do with the length of the line.

Americans can no longer connect the dots. There's a simple, less publicized, reason businesspeople automatically support lowering taxes and "smaller government" (deregulation). The inevitable result is fewer eyes watching what they are doing, so that we are left to trust their integrity. Contaminated food, falling cranes, economic meltdowns, and other headline-grabbing events definitely support that strategy, right?

Ronald Reagan said it best, "trust, but verify". That takes adequate funding and not perpetual claims of available yet never realized, large scale cost savings.