Give us your questions for Sen. Toomey

If you haven’t noticed, a lot of people are talking about the national debt and efforts to balance the budget.

New Pa. Sen. Pat Toomey is right in the middle of it.

This afternoon we will host the senator here in our offices for a live-stream session with our editorial board. You can tune in at 1:30 p.m.

Do you have a question concerning the budget, talk of extending the debt limit, or the deficit?

Are you wondering whether your Medicare benefits might be in jeopardy as legislators wield their ax in an effort to tame all this runaway red ink?

Now’s your time to ask Sen. Toomey. You can email your questions to editor@delcotimes.com, or log on to our live-stream this afternoon and take part in the live chat focusing on the federal budget.

Toomey is a firm believer that now is the time for budget reform. He has proposed a plan of his own, which he unveiled last week, and we will ask him to explain exactly what he’d like to see happen.

He wants to balance the federal budget by 2020, in the process reducing our debt to about 52 percent of our GDP by 2021.

This was the crucial plank the Toomey campaigned on in his victory over Democrat Joe Sestak to replace the venerable Arlen Specter.

The newly minted senator indicates this might be the last chance of correcting this runaway deficit train. He has said he would support raising the debt limit, but only if there are real spending caps in place. He also makes it clear he does not believe those who claim that a failure to extend the debt limit would spark a default and cataclysmic economic collapse.

This is probably the single most pressing issue facing the country, at least on the economic side.

Don’t sit on the sidelines. Get involved. Take part in our live-stream with Sen. Toomey. Send in your questions. We’ll try to get answers.

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