On a national level, we simply cannot sustain the current level of government spending.

We must avoid further bailouts, and instead grow our economy by encouraging private investment and job-creating small businesses. We can capitalize our banks by giving people incentives to save rather than consume. When banks have money to lend, small businesses benefit, and so does our community.

Further, Congress must fulfill its pay-go obligation and replace federal waste with targeted, job-creating investments, such as identified infrastructural needs in regions like ours.