My good friend, Republican Whip Eric Cantor has started a program called YouCut. Through the program, Americans can vote each week on what wasteful spending programs should be cut. It's time to put Washington on a diet, and this is one great way to do it.

YouCut allows you to vote for which federal programs you to want cut from the budget. Each week, my colleagues and I will introduce legislation to cut the program that gets the most votes.

Does this solve all of our fiscal problems? Certainly not! But it does a lot to combat a disturbing Washington mindset about the value of the tax dollar. This mindset holds that Washington has first right of refusal on your paycheck, and that bureaucrats know how to spend your money better than you do. This is the mindset that allowed a bureaucrat at the EPA to decide that it was perfectly acceptable to use $30,000 of your dollars as cash prizes for YouTube contests.

Certainly government does good things. I commend them for their reaction to this months flooding in Tennessee. But they waste a lot of your money as well. When they do, the debt that accumulates puts all of the worthwhile programs, from national defense to flood relief, in danger.

While some in Washington believe that we should spend at every turn, I think we should use every opportunity to cut. That is why I support the YouCut program and will continue to offer my 1%, 2%, and 5% spending cuts on the Appropriations bills.

Sign up here and I will remind you each week when it is time to pick which program YouCut!