That's not an accurate summary. A better summary comes in the last paragraph of the article:

  It's no longer acceptable for us to not take responsibility for our Congress
  anymore. If we want it to be better then throwing bums out, and replacing them
  with new bums doesn't seem to be doing the trick. Let's work instead to
 educate whomever is in Congress, and the professional class around them.

In particular, with law enforcement, it's not as much an issue of how much money is spent on law enforcement (though that also matters), but whether the right things are prohibited. There are some things that few people would argue for decriminalizing (say, driving a truck bomb into a building), but a lot more questions past that.

That is one side of it, yes. Congress takes your money to do a lot of horrible things, like the hundreds of thousands of documented civilians that were killed as a direct result of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

But Congress takes your money to do a lot of things, and some of them are absolutely important, like taking care of the medical problems that older people have.