Feds won't face the music, but state controlling spending

If there’s one thing the nation’s politicians have been good at, it is jawboning about the deficit. When it comes to action, that’s another thing.

Last week, government leaders past and present gathered in Washington to have their annual gabfest about the federal budget.

You could tell from the tone of Associated Press reporter Andrew Taylor’s coverage of the “fiscal summit,” that even he is getting jaded with the discussion.