Gordon Clay here. Are the budgets being proposed by Congress going to provide jobs and protect families, seniors and people with disabilities or are they designed to protect tax breaks for millionaires, absurd giveaways to Big Oil and ignore loopholes that leave companies like General Electric paying less federal taxes than your baby sitter. This isn't about raising taxes. It's about eliminating unfair giveaways to corporations, millionaires and billionaires.

Tainted spinach, peppers, peanut butter and eggs have killed too many Americans and sickened thousands more over the past five years. Congress proposes slashing critical funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture meat inspections by $88 million and cut the Environmental Protection Agency's State Revolving Funds for clean drinking water by almost $2 billion dollars just to finish out the current fiscal year. That's the mechanisms through which federal funding is distributed to states and municipalities for water infrastructure repairs, maintenance and improvement. None of these cuts will add one single job.

These and other deep spending cuts increase unemployment and home closures of fellow American families, many of whom already aren't getting enough to eat. These budget cuts will cripple our fragile economic recovery as well as public safety, education, and health services. I guess the fat cats in Congress want China to win.

Just remember, you get what you pay for and in this case, with considerably less oversight, you might get a lot more than you pay for - and that's not a good thing.

And check out your new Frontier Brookings-Harbor phone book. You've got a 67% chance that your name ISN'T in the white pages.

(Clarifying note: They phone book has converted to a yellow-pages and white-pages for business listings only, no residential listings.)