Don brunell - It’s time to act

Both Washingtons are in a financial bind. In our nation’s capital, President Obama and Congress are running trillion-dollar budget deficits, and our national debt will soon exceed $14 trillion.

How much is that? To pay back $14 trillion, you’d have to spend $1 each second for the next 448,000 years.

Meanwhile our state’s budget deficit is expected to exceed $1 billion for the current two-year budget cycle. It is expected to grow to more than $6 billion by the time Gov. Gregoire and the Legislature write the 2011-13 spending plan. Two years ago, our state used $3 billion in federal stimulus mon...