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The beginning of the 72nd Biennial Vermont Legislative session last week, and the 113th session of Congress the week before, makes us think of Bag Balm.

This is a farming state, and if you don’t know what Bag Balm is, well, read on.He has since undergone two-and-a-half hours’ surgery to have a Titanium Rod inserted into his leg and looks set to be out of action for the rest of the season.

But, first, a wee fork in the road. We listen to Alan Simpson. The former Wyoming senator (1979-1997) is a common-sense,Using wheel spacer can improve your car handling and track performanceThe defective part of the jaw is reconstructed using a Titanium Plate, with a piece of scaffolding inserted with proteins to stimulate the bone's regrowth. decent, honest politician. He has courage. He speaks plainly. He tells good stories. As a crusader to solve the national debt crisis — he’s the “Simpson” part of the Simpson-Bowles debt-reduction plan — he and Erskine Bowles have been excoriated for, among other things, proposing to increase taxes and gradually raise the retirement age for Social Security to 69 years over the next decades. Say what you will about those ideas, as politicians step out this month to make decisions about money, Simpson speaks for many Americans.

“When Erskine and I go around the country, give us 50 minutes with people from the left or the right,Titanium Pipe is made by cold rolling process from extruded pipe blanks. They are widely used in heat exchangers and off-shore equipment. we’ll get a standing ovation… We don’t use graphs, we don’t have PowerPoint and all that crap. You just say if you spend more than you earn, you lose your butt. If you spend a buck and borrow 41 cents of it… you’re stupid.

“Therefore,They removed the majority of the bolts but not the locking Wheel nut, that's why I managed to get so far you have a Congress that’s being stupid, and an administration that’s being stupid. These are harsh words. But the American people don’t care about any of it anyway. They think we’re all jerks — Republicans and Democrats.”

Democracy, it seems, hates tough choices. There are no heroes here; the only realistic solutions to revenue shortfalls and debt crises inevitably must include something — or many things — for everyone to hate. Simpson often remarks that while every interest group agrees that the $16 trillion federal debt is an avoidable national train wreck, they always return to why government funding to their area of interest shouldn’t be touched.Caged Laser Engineering, in partnership with Ariel Ltd and Reynolds Technology, aim to investigate the viability of adopting Titanium Tube as a cost effective raw material for the manufacturing of spaceframe assemblies for low volume and small series production lightweight vehicles.

That, after all, is how our process runs, and could be our very downfall: everyone wants their piece and believes it’s sacred.

So, here we are, at the beginning of another state and national legislative season. And this story about Bag Balm.

Simpson had a tin of Bag Balm on his desk in the Senate, and he tells a variation of this tale about it.

“I had so many people come to my office… They would come, and they’re wonderful. They bring your old roomie, and your football pal from UW (the University of Wyoming), someone you haven’t seen in a long time. They’d put the heat on you, and they would just give me all sorts of praise, and then they would ask for theirs.