Let me ask you a question - would you hire an accountant who can't do math?  Would you give your taxes to someone who has no experience with numbers?

Then why have we elected a Congress that is short on fiscal experience?  Congress's primary responsibility is setting and maintaining the United States budget - controlling the spending of our federal government.  True, Congress also sets policy and creates laws, but its primary enforcement mechanism is fiscal control through the budget of the United States.

Rich Baker has the experience to responsibly negotiate a reasonable fiscal policy for the United States.  Spending needs to be challenged, questioned, and investigated.  Some spending is needed to perform the actions of government, but wasteful and irresponsible spending helps no one.

From his background in software engineering to his studies of corporate balance sheets and income statements as as Intellectual Property Executive, Rich Baker is comfortable with numbers and comfortable with finance.  When Rich Baker joined the Pentucket Regional School Committee, the finances were in total disarray.  Rich Baker investigated, studied, challenged, and reached an understanding of the budget drivers - and managed those components, with the rest of the Committee, until the School District's finances came back under control.  After 2 years, the district moved from fiscal chaos to a district with a healthy financial outlook.

When you look at the other candidate for Congress from the Massachusetts 6th Congressional District, you have a lawyer without financial experience, let alone the experience managing tough financial situations that Rich Baker can bring to the federal government.