Out of Touch #234 By Hank Silverberg Beyond all the rhetoric about gas prices, all the politics about who supports Trumpism, and all the gaggling about tax policy, many of our elected representatives in Washington and elsewhere are once again completely out of touch with what the average American is dealing with in our daily lives. There was a good example this weekend in the debates and votes over a massive spending bill. The Inflation Reduction Act, as it's called, passed the senate after more than 20 hours of debate, but without the proposal to cap the price of insulin at $35. It seems the GOP members j ust don't get it. For millions of people, choosing between the cost of medication or food and rent/mortgage is a monthly dilemma. The GOP used a procedural gimmick to strip that insulin cap out of the bill. The $740 billion legislation will reduce the federal deficit