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Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader from California, also harbors some nutty ideas. Despite consistent budget deficits exceeding a trillion dollars a year throughout Barack Obama's tenure and a $16 trillion national debt that has increased by about 50 percent over that same period, Ms. Pelosi not only says with a straight face that we don't have a spending problem, but she is miffed that the pay raise proposed for all federal employees seems destined for the trash heap. "I think we should respect the work we do, Ms. Pelosi told reporters. I think its necessary for us to have the dignity of the job.... Just because the nation is drowning in red ink is no reason to fail to show due deference to our employees in the Congress, right? Congressional Democrats twist themselves into knots trying to convince us that it's okay to spend 40 percent more than the revenue we collect every year. Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin commented that We are now the richest nation in the world. We have the highest per capita income of any major nation. That kind of begs the question, doesnt it? If were so rich, why are we so broke? Is it a spending problem? No. Sen. Harkin and Congresswoman Pelosi, and a whole gaggle of others see salvation in taking even more hard-earned money from the citizens, or at least some of them. However, a new poll shows 83 percent of Americans disagree. They have had it with fiscal irresponsibility and piling debt on future generations. Here's a lesson in good government for public servants from someone who actually understood the concept: A wise and frugal government shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. Thomas Jefferson