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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 1986535" data-attributes="member: 7900">Really?  I should remind everyone that it has been the U.S. Senate in the last few years that have refused to even consider a budget, let alone vote on it.  We've seen over three years without them taking action.  Instead, everyone is out there demanding that we raise the debt limit yet again instead of being responsible.  So, with half of Congress refusing to do their job, as required by law, they are well past "kicking the can down the road," but instead are sending it down the barrel of a field gun.Sadly, when the law was written (surprise....by Congress), it was set up so that the part of the Congress that would be responsible for punishing the wrongdoer in failing to pass a budget would be the one that hasn't done so.  In other words, the House of Representative cannot legally do anything to punish anyone in the Senate for failing to act, and the Senate cannot punish anyone in the House.Meanwhile, the EPA has passed regulations to deem airborne dust as a pollutant, thus seriously putting an anvil over the heads of all our farmers.  Oh, they've also enacted controls on the water that farmers use for crops and will force them to clean up fuel spills.  Good luck on getting bread.  Who is going to want to farm if they face stiff penalties for raising dust as they farm?</blockquote>