Why Congress Needs to Lead and Why they need Compromises

I know that I being a broken record but someone needs to comment on these inconsistencies in the political record.

Rural politicians of both parties are against the Post Office cutting services in an intelligent way to try and find a profit.  Many of these politicians are members of the Tea Party who will cut spending on everything else and want to privatize everything, but won't allow the Post Office to reduce services that do not pay for themselves.

Rereading a past post that new members of my audience have been reviewing, I was reminded that the voters do not want less spent on their services, just someone else's services.  That is why the House GOP could not pass a transportation bill with their desire level of spending; the Tea Party Representatives did not want to be on record for reducing spending on stuff in their own district.  So they pass general spending cuts and force the Bureaucracy to choose what to cut.  That is in violation of the Constitution that the Tea Party wants to being forth as the deciding factor in everything.  Spending bills must originate in the House and must authorize specific spending.  The Tea Party Representatives are only selectively upholding the Constitution.

But this is not surprising.  It reflects the electorate that voted these guys in while believing the following (which I posted in February:

From the Pew Research Center

19% of the population wants only spending cuts.

76% want spending cuts and revenue increases with more spending cuts than revenue increases.

OK, a balanced approach until you get to the details, which is why both parties need to be honest with the voters.

49% want to increase spending on the world's needy. 48% decrease
60% want to increase spending on the State Department.  34% decrease
65% want to increase spending on the Unemployed.  32% decrease
73%...........increase.........on the military.  24% decrease
71% ............................on aid to the needy.  24% decrease
72%...........increase...............health care.  22% decrease
76% ....................................environment.  22% decrease
74%.....................................energy.  21% decrease
77%..................................science research.  20% decrease
76%..................................agriculture.  20% decrease
77%...................................anti-terrorism.  19% decrease
81%....................................infrastructure.  17% decrease
82%....................................medicare.  15% decrease
82%................................anti-crime.  14% decrease
83%................................food&drug.  14% decrease
84%.................................FEMA.  12% decrease
89%..................................education.  10% decrease
87%.................................social security.  10% decrease
91%..........increase..........Veteran's Benefits.  6% decrease

We will not get the population behind specific spending cuts until Congress gets both Parties involved (compromise) and both Parties work to educate the voters that spending must be cut while raising some revenues (2/3 & 1/3 or some variant).  The country needs leadership and that requires both parties to lead and work together (compromise to the middle).

I am a broken record.