Will D.C. leaders ever change wild spending ways?

School is now back in session and while parents are certainly always happy for that to happen, you can be sure of one thing they aren’t happy about—the cost of school supplies, which is just another sign of the inflation and poor economy that is seriously hurting most Americans.
According to one congressional leader from Louisiana, the cost of notebooks, pencils, crayons and other school supplies was 24 percent higher this year for parents.
The average family was expected to spend $597 more per student this year for their supplies, and that’s just the start of back-to-school spending.
While the United States president is somehow touting a great economy, even coming up with a nickname of Bidenomics, there can’t be any Americans who really believe that. And it’s because the numbers don’t lie.
Inflation was at a 40-year historic high for many of the past months, near the 9 percent mark at one point, and the fact inflation is coming down is still not reason to believe the average family is very happy.
That’s because the latest statistics show the average Louisiana family will spend an extra $9,180 this year for various aspects of inflated supplies or food. That means middle class families need to miraculously find $765 every month to manage!
Add to that perhaps the most important factor hitting Americans in the wallet—fuel prices—and it is laughable for anyone to think the economy is something to brag about.
Prices at the pump have also been steadily moving back up, with Louisiana residents now seeing prices approaching the $3.50 per gallon mark for regular gas, due in large part to the fact our former energy independence that was achieved three years ago has gone down the tank from oil and gas production being shut down in so many ways.
Perhaps it is asking too much for the bureaucrats in Washington to ever address federal spending in a commonsense way. Instead, extra spending in the trillions over recent years is seen as the number one reason for inflation going so high, which hit Americans so hard that credit card use is at a record high, with over $1 trillion in debt for the first time in history.
And it doesn’t help to send billions of dollars to countries like Ukraine to fund a war that never should have happened in the first place, and a war the majority of Americans do not support.
With the presidential election coming up in a little more than a year, we can only hope some completely different leader will get the support of the American people and receive a mandate to radically change what is happening in our country.
Without it, the future for our children and grandchildren is questionable at best, and downright scary at worst.