Robert Dodge  |  Your TurnOur national budget was funded on tax day, April 15. This is a time to reflect on our priorities and who we are as a nation. Each of us can identify funding priorities in our collective daily experience from childcare and education to healthcare, national defense, and even nuclear weapons. With finite dollars and a myriad of local, national and international needs, we must be informed as to how these funds are being allocated. Promises of affordability, reduced cost of living, and avoidance of costly wars have not coincided with reality. Here in Ventura County we see…