If you're not angry about the job that America's Largest Full-Time State Legislature isn't doing, you're missing a great train wreck.

This is the seventh-consecutive summer that the 253-headed monster in Harrisburg has failed to adopt a budget on time.

Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell advocates an increase in the personal income tax from 3.07 to 3.57 percent. During a time of high unemployment and recession, that's obscene.

Republicans are blocking that, but also are against tapping any of the $750 million in the state's Rainy Day Fund. If worldwide recession and a $3.2 billion budget deficit don't qualify as a rainy day (or a monsoon), what in the name of Herbert Hoover would?

Another big pool of money, roughly $200 million in surplus legislative accounts, also sits ripe for the taking. It enables our oversized statehouse to dawdle each summer. They blithely tap into it whenever state lawmakers can't or won't pass a budget on time, which is all the time.

Why are we paying this bunch full time? Why do we need more highly paid lawmakers than every other state when our representatives can't get out of their own way? In a time when Bonusgate has made endemic corruption in Harrisburg obvious, and it's clear that the outsized staffing leaves extra minions the time to do political rather than state work, why aren't more citizens crying out to save tens of millions of dollars each year by cutting the size of the Legislature itself?

Does anyone still believe we're getting our money's worth from this setup?

I've been asking that for years, and when readers wonder why other media haven't made the same argument, I have no answer. I can only help when people call, as they often do, to ask who represents them in Harrisburg. Many have no idea.

Because this is the weekend we celebrate what a more imaginative (and significantly smaller) group of delegates brought forth in Pennsylvania in 1776 (without air conditioning, mind you), I thought I'd offer the list below.

Nobody's saying they have an easy task this year. If you want a taste of how hard it is to raise or cut billions, play the game YouBudget at www.youbudgetpa.org, a creation of the liberal public interest group, Keystone Progress. That said, this Legislature is not making the moves least harmful to the average citizen, and we ought to let them know we know.

If there seem to be a lot of names below, there are. To repeat, we have 253 lawmakers while comparable states, Ohio and Illinois, get by with 132 and 177. Cutting the size would take years and a constitutional amendment and so would be of no immediate help in this budget crisis. But, if you call a lawmaker, you might suggest he will lose his job in 2010 rather than later if the Legislature doesn't begin serious trimming.

Happy Independence Day. Find the lawmaker nearest you, but remember it's Sunday. Any fireworks of the verbal variety will go to voice mail.

For more information, including e-mail addresses and representation by home address, the statehouse Web site at www.legis.state.pa.us is the go-to place. All phone numbers below are 412 unless otherwise noted.

Regional SENATE delegation:

Jay Costa Jr., D-Forest Hills, 241-6690; Jim Ferlo, D-Highland Park, 621-3006; Wayne Fontana, D-Brookline, 344-2551; Richard Kasunic, D-Dunbar, (724) 626-1611; Sean Logan, D-Monroeville, 380-2242; Jane Orie, R-McCandless, 630-9466; John Pippy, R-Moon, 262-2260; Barry Stout, D-Bentleyville, (724) 225-5400; Elder Vogel Jr., R-New Sewickley, (724) 774-0444; Kim Ward, R-Hempfield, (724) 600-7002; Don White, R-Indiana, (724) 357-0151; Mary Jo White, R-Venango, (814) 432-4345.

Regional HOUSE delegation:

Jim Casorio, D-Irwin, (724) 861-0247; Jim Christiana, R-Beaver, (724) 728-7655; Dom Costa, D-Stanton Heights, 361-2040; Paul Costa, D-Wilkins, 824-3400; Peter Daley, D-California, (724) 379-5540; Dan Deasy, D-Westwood, 928-9514; Tony DeLuca, D-Penn Hills, 793-2448; Frank Dermody, D-Oakmont, (724) 274-4770; Bill DeWeese, D-Waynesburg, (724) 627-8683; Brian Ellis, R-Butler, (724) 283-5852; Dan Frankel, D-Squirrel Hill, 422-1774; Marc Gergely, D-White Oak, 664-0035; Jaret Gibbons, D-Ellwood City, (724) 752-1133; R. Ted Harhai, D-Monessen, (724) 684-2939; Bill Kortz, D-Dravosburg, 466-1940; Nick Kotik, D-Robinson, 264-4260; Tim Krieger, R-Delmont, (724) 834-6400; Deberah Kula, (724) 626-2761; David Levdansky, D-Forward, 384-2258; John Maher, R-Upper St. Clair, 831-8080; Tim Mahoney, D-South Union, (724) 438-6100; Jim Marshall, R-Big Beaver, (724) 847-1352; Joseph Markosek, D-Monroeville, 856-8284; Robert Matzie, D-Ambridge, 724-266-7774; Daryl Metcalfe, R-Cranberry, (724) 772-3110; Mark Mustio, R-Moon, 262-3780; John Pallone, D-New Kensington, (724) 339-1990; Joseph Petrarca, (724) 567-6982; Joseph Preston, D-East Liberty, 361-3692; Jeff Pyle, R-Ford City, (724) 763-3222; Harry Readshaw, D-Carrick, 881-4208; Mike Reese, R-Mount Pleasant, (724) 423-6503; Matt Smith, D-Mt. Lebanon, 571-2169; Tim Solobay, D-Canonsburg, (724) 746-3762; Dick Stevenson, R-Grove City, (724) 458-4911; Mike Turzai, R-Bradford Woods, 369-2230; Randy Vulakovich, R-Shaler, 487-6600; Chelsa Wagner, D-Beechview, 343-2094; Don Walko, D-North Side, 321-5523; Jake Wheatley, D-Hill District, 471-7760; Jesse White, D-Cecil, (724) 746-3677.