We received a response to the spending question from Cesar Henao, who is running for Congress in the 21st congressional district. Here is his response:
I support a balanced budget, and trimming federal spending so that budget surpluses can begin to pay off the national debt.
The simple answer I could give you would be to cut program ABC and D however our financial dilemma is much more complicated than that. What we need is a leader with a conviction to address across-the-board cuts that will lessen the impact of our senior citizens on fixed income, and the poor.
The challenge, however, is that you have two parties trying to protect their special interests and at the same time telling the American people It’s in their best interests. Taking away corporate and social entitlements to entities that do not deserve or need them, should be our Number one fiscal priority.
Budgeting for a government is far much more complex and different than budgeting for an organization or an individual family household. I would want to look at a line item by line item budget and give the president the ability to do line item vetoes. This helps to assure the president assumes much more responsibility for fiscal responsibility than the office has been given in the past.
