This seems like it is a very easy concept to grasp. You wouldn't think that we should have to try and convince anybody of the facts. Yet, congress just keeps spending. So here it is in as simple a format as I can: if you spend more than you take in and then borrow for 25+ years and keep spending more then you are broke. Now you have some choices to make. First you could increase the income via new and/or much higher taxes or two - you could decrease spending. Of course the third choice is some combination of choices 1 and 2. What has congress consistently voted for?? Choice xx - spend more, borrow more, increase taxes, increase welfare. Makes no sense at all.

This week alone, I am told congress wants to pay us up to $4500 for our old cars that get less than a combined 18mpg. Sounds like another auto industry bailout to me. Also, I am seeing real estate ads pushing the $8,000 available for first time home buyers. Nevermind all of us that already own a house and have payed our mortgages on time each and every month - we now get to subsidize other people's houses. I see a few hundred million was approved for some overseas vaccination program from congress. Apparently the 2 year plan for the stimulus funds isn't "fast" enough so now the administration is going to spend all the money yet this year. Tax credits for wind farms have been extended - again. New tax brackets have removed even more Americans off the income tax rolls. Government sponsored ads taut the earned income credit as being some kind of "refund" instead of the the clear redistribution that it is. You would think the coffers were just overflowing in Washington. In the middle of this, the new administration actually had the gall to make some sentimental statements about a "pay as you go" rule that would force the government to shuffle funds from one program to another.

The solution is clear, we have to cut spending. Dramatically. That means each and every one of us will have to see cuts to our favorite "pet" projects. Education, social security, defense, road projects, tunnels all need to see cuts. But before we cut those, lets cut bailout monies, wasteful spending, unnecessary projects, foreign funding and the like out completely. In addition, though it pains me to say so, we need to raise more tax revenue to start paying off this national debt. Start by making certain all working Americans are contributing some small amount to the system. It is time to change. There is no time to waste.