House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was talking Sunday about plans for passing the trillions of dollars in infrastructure funding and President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” program.

Pelosi promised that the $1 trillion infrastructure bill would pass this week, and that the $3.5 trillion spending bill would pass later, probably at a much lower cost.

“We’ll see how the number comes down and what we need,” she said. “Again, the Senate and the House, those who are not in full agreement with the president, right, let’s see what our values — let’s not talk about numbers and dollars. Let’s talk about values.”

In Washington it is hard to separate values from dollars, especially since what politicians value generally leads to dollars being spent for what they value.

You value education improvements?

Give it some money.

You value health care programs?

It will cost money.

You value alternative energy development?

It will take money. Before you know it you are looking at trillions of dollars.

At least Pelosi is willing to cut back a bit. Sen. Bernie Sanders and his democratic socialists have values that add up to $6 trillion. That’s how much he’d like the Build Back Better” bill to be.

It’s too bad more people in Washington don’t have a grasp on the value of a dollar, and what that value means to the people they take it from every year in tax levies. Ask us about our values, Speaker Pelosi, before you ask us to pony up more tax dollars.