This will fall on deaf ears

Of course with the track record the Republicans have had under Bush, some might not think he is being sincere. Never the less this is exactly what the Federal Government should be doing. We do need to put a freeze on our spending.

The top Republican in the House is seizing on the latest spike in unemployment to call for a freeze on government spending and to urge President Barack Obama to veto a $410 billion spending bill.

Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the jump in unemployment to 8.1 percent and the loss of 651,000 jobs in February is a sign of a worsening recession that demands better solutions from both parties.

Boehner criticized the spending bill as chocked full of wasteful, pork-barrel projects. The Senate postponed a vote on the bill until Monday amid the criticism.

Boehner said he hoped Obama would veto the bill. He urged the president to work with House Republicans to impose a spending freeze until the end of this fiscal year.

But we already all know this won't happen. It sounds good but the Democrats are the party with the tax and spend mentality.

But these are the kind of ideas the current batch of Republicans need to talk about. The more we talk about how over spending is bad for the country and how we need to be fiscally responsible to get our of our current crisis the more the American people will eventually start to get it. The Republicans are bad at educating the people it is about time we start getting out there and showing the people how our ideas are better.