Solution: Balanced budget

Here we go again. As David Broder concludes: "Once again this year, Congress has passed a 'pay-as-you-go' bill requiring it to make compensatory cuts whenever it increases appropriations for some worthy purpose. Then it turned right around and began waiving the requirement when circumstances pinched."

Yet no suggestion as to the one solution necessary to preserve our democracy: a U.S. Constitution amendment to require a balanced federal budget.

BILL D. BURLISON, Advance, Mo.