Is it too much to expect politicians accustomed to profligate campaign spending of supporters’ voluntary contributions to change the post-election temptation of access to massive resources of other people’s’ money by taxation? Recent widening exposure of past “creeping malfeasance” attributable to both parties should promote bipartisan support of budget balancing in the interest of national debt reduction. Taxpayers now have an overdue opportunity to address financial stress resulting from uncommon and unprecedented domestic and worldwide largess. America’s role of exemplary leadership has been stretched beyond reasonable limits. A growing “bring home the bacon” mentality among local and state elected officials has been extended to a willing export market that apparently includes more than 150 nations of widely varying merit as their politicians effectively tap our natural and financial resources. That fact shows in problematic budget disbursements and international trade imbalances. This situation has created an open invitation for America’s warring political parties to join forces in addressing the identified array of pressing issues of concern to a supermajority of the public. Our major battles need not be internal with each other, but focused on common sense restoration of law, order and fiscal responsibility. The world’s judgment of us is better based on constructive peace-keeping accomplishment and exemplary humanitarian conduct than random, scattershot handouts for trivial matters. Phil Osifer