Of course this guy doesn't have Keith Olbermann's credentials...or even Bill Mahr's. So what would he know?

http://www.limaohio.com/articles/debt-38...ional.html

Letter: National debt undue burden on families
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June 21, 2009 - 6:53 PM
Shawn Meyer, Rockford
My family of seven is more than $1.28 million in debt. We can pay this debt off in 31 years if we dedicate 100 percent of our income to debt reduction. Of course, we need to eat. And we need to pay the mortgage, utility bills, insurance premiums, etc.. We're in deep trouble as anyone can easily see.

To make matters much worse, we are accumulating more than $46,000 in additional debt each year. This is more than our total gross income. I know what you're thinking: Put the breaks on your spending for Pete's sake.

How I wish it were that easy. You see, I'm not referring to personal debt). I'm talking about my family's share of the national debt, combined with our obligations to Social Security and Medicare which together are currently under-funded by about $44 trillion, according to former Comptroller General David Walker. To sum up his report: We're basically toast.

What does a father of five do? I've consistently voted for those who promised to be fiscally responsible. I've written and called my congressmen and senators. I warn them that we're watching. But they don't care. They continue spending like the prodigal son, betting everything on the foolish hope that with massive tax increases, freshly inked bills and crossed fingers we'll somehow escape the inevitable. We won't.

Despite his oft-repeated campaign promise to rein in spending, get the deficit under control, and shrink our national debt, President Barack Obama's "solution" to our desperate situation is to accelerate irresponsible spending and entitlements to unprecedented levels.

Do you realize the scope of the problem? What do you intend to do about it? Problems don't go away by ignoring them.

(06-24-2009 09:26 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  Of course this guy doesn't have Keith Olbermann's credentials...or even Bill Mahr's. So what would he know?

http://www.limaohio.com/articles/debt-38...ional.html

Letter: National debt undue burden on families
Comments 0 | Recommend 0
June 21, 2009 - 6:53 PM
Shawn Meyer, Rockford
My family of seven is more than $1.28 million in debt. We can pay this debt off in 31 years if we dedicate 100 percent of our income to debt reduction. Of course, we need to eat. And we need to pay the mortgage, utility bills, insurance premiums, etc.. We're in deep trouble as anyone can easily see.

To make matters much worse, we are accumulating more than $46,000 in additional debt each year. This is more than our total gross income. I know what you're thinking: Put the breaks on your spending for Pete's sake.

How I wish it were that easy. You see, I'm not referring to personal debt). I'm talking about my family's share of the national debt, combined with our obligations to Social Security and Medicare which together are currently under-funded by about $44 trillion, according to former Comptroller General David Walker. To sum up his report: We're basically toast.

What does a father of five do? I've consistently voted for those who promised to be fiscally responsible. I've written and called my congressmen and senators. I warn them that we're watching. But they don't care. They continue spending like the prodigal son, betting everything on the foolish hope that with massive tax increases, freshly inked bills and crossed fingers we'll somehow escape the inevitable. We won't.

Despite his oft-repeated campaign promise to rein in spending, get the deficit under control, and shrink our national debt, President Barack Obama's "solution" to our desperate situation is to accelerate irresponsible spending and entitlements to unprecedented levels.

Do you realize the scope of the problem? What do you intend to do about it? Problems don't go away by ignoring them.

I hear you and I feel your pain.

But when we keep electing these imbeciles year after year until they have 40, 50, even 60 years in Congress, it is OUR FAULT they act the way they do.

We reelect them thru Scandals, Impropriety, Out and Out Tax Evasion, Open Theft, Absolute Lying and we expect good things from them.

We can't get all Americans on the same page to CLEAN HOUSE in all Parties and All Seats .... if we could put the fear of God on these clowns like that, we would not have to suffer the stupidity of the things we put up with.

It is time to remove the waste from the basket and give some New Blood a chance to show if they can be any better than the Trash we have in there now.

And it may be hard for some to let go of the old and elect the new, but maybe this is the only way to solve the "God Complex Crisis" that exist in Congress right now.

It is either that or Succession from the Union and be Self Governing.

I believe it is "Pick Your Poison Time" for us at this Cross Roads in History.

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What is cool about whatever happens in the future, the Revolution Will Be Televised, Blogged and Youtubed.

As we see now in Iran, it is exceedingly difficult to keep anything underwraps. If and when the US public decides enough is enough, telecommunications will ensure that all those Americans who want to engage, from Portland OR to Portland ME, are completly engaged.

But maybe the real question is "who is the next George Washington / Paul Revere / John Connor / John Galt?