As I write this, our entire country is sitting on the edge of their recliners and sectional sofas, counting down to the government shutdown that could happen at the end of this week, should the Republicans and Democrats not reach an agreement on how we should stop spending because we need money.

Earlier this week I read about presidential campaign fundraising goals for 2011. Some of the projected goals top a million dollars. If these guys (and gals) are so eager to raise funds for promoting their personal agendas, then maybe we should give them an offering plate to start passing around on behalf of the Federal Budget as well. Can you imagine the silence in the chambers of Congress if they all were staring at the plate looming before their eyes, dreading its arrival? What if we were to shave a mere $10,000 from the salaries of each Representative, and $15,000 from each Senator? Let's see...that would total to...$4,350,000 from the House, and...$1,500,000 from the Senate. There are almost 309
million residents in the US right now. What if we each gave $10? If my math is correct, then that would total to over 3
billion dollars. How much money are we trying to raise/save/stop spending again? That'd be a pretty good start. And then we could stop all new dog park construction for the year (I have nothing against dog parks. I just believe that they shouldn't be priority in a year of economic crisis). And what about the refurbishments throughout the corrections department of each state? Do our prisoners really need new refrigerators
right now? Seeing things like these listed on my state's budget make me question the seriousness of our nation's crisis...or at least question the methods being used to "fix" it.
I don't claim to be perfect, or to have all the answers. But with a little common sense and a fair amount of intelligence, I don't think our budget problem would be that difficult to solve. How would
you modify the federal budget to cover the deficit?
I don't think that you have all the answers--that's the point. I don't believe anyone has the the answers at this moment for a serious discussion needs to be occur first.
ReplyDeleteYet, I think you're asking the correct answers,and thats the most important contribution any politican can offer. But why don't the-they don't; not really. They just offer the same solution that has been tried before but now it wears a dress.
I believe, that as a whole, they are too scared to ask and take serious, real change in our economy because they have some sort of investment in the system as is. Therefore, they see no reason to change it. That is the reason why they feed the public much so much lip service.
It goes both ways.It's a revolving door. Both the Democrats and Republicans are guilty of this. The political parties in this country aren't interested in truly soliving the fiscal problems of the linning their pockes with money, economic investments, sexual misconduct, and re-election to perpetuate the system. And we vote them into office?
Politicans feed the publc,through media spots, that they are the chosen ones with the monopoly on the special, secret information it takes tao solve the unsolvabe problems when in fact the only things that are needed are: commen sense + a calculator + compassion = solution.
So where are the answers to your questions? I don't know. But hearing different voices from all spectrums calmly might be the beginning???