accept a cut in their salary, cease spending on frivolous activities, to "tighten their belts" like the rest of us.

We would like the current administration, the whole of the capitol hill staff, and the politicians to learn to tighten their belts in a recession as the rest of nation must. The current administration has chosen to continue spending like it is not involved in two separate wars. If in war, it must adopt a war-time budget. Routine lavish vacations, excessive salaries, and other frivolous expenditures only seek to undermine all good budgeting and money managing sense.