Republican leaders’ actions should make us proud

Despite biased negative media depictions to the contrary, I am proud of many of our elected officials in Washington such as Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., Congressman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and our own Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam, also a Republican, to name a few. How refreshing to have principled, pragmatic, responsible representation to help steer our beloved nation toward the corrective, painful yet necessary road to fiscal solvency and limited government.

We need to increase consumer spending to improve our economy and create healthy, market-driven job creation. This is not achieved with increased taxation or more ineffective government stimulus or spending. Maybe soon we can actually address simplifying our convoluted tax code with a loophole ridding flat tax.

Eliminating Washington-driven waste and inefficiency will result in dollars available for assisting our poor and vulnerable. Don’t believe big-government leftists who call the tea party “terrorists” from fear of curtailed, chronic spending (not exactly the civil, toned-down rhetoric called for after the heinous shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona). We should all thank the tea party movement for forcing our capitol to “stop kicking the can down the road” during this regrettable debt-ceiling crisis.

Mary Kinastowski

Arlington Heights