Steve Kagen: “The return to transparency in the budget process is welcome, and long overdue.”

We can protect our environment, we can secure our nation and harvest our national forests all at the same time.

It is time for pay-as-you-go budgeting (PAYGO) to move from rules to the law of the land.

One of the reasons that they have a lack of confidence, not just in the economy but in their government, is our inability to catch all the crooks that caused this economic mess.

We can make suggestions about what might be good for people, but we also have the capability and the power to reward people financially for doing the right thing, and punish people financially for not doing the right thing.