On bending in the right direction

Congratulations to the US Congress for bending the budget (and President Obama) in the right direction. We are still piling trillion upon trillions of dollars onto the national debt, but we've taken a small step toward reversing the trend: domestic discretionary spending will drop 4 percent this year, after having grown 6 percent in 2008, 11 percent in 2009, and 14 percent in 2010.

It's a start. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford