Snoopy, Peanuts Comic Strip Sunday and 13,000 billion dollars of national debt

Recent news reminds me of an old Sunday comic strip Peanuts. Snoopy jogging one day when his knees to take the punishment now complain jog. The feet something similar under the pounding and how they hurt. The lungs, which then spontaneously absorb the punishment because they work so hard, pumping air into their body. The ears are still complaining about how cold they are and why they were jogging out anyway.At this point, the heart says to do something that will benefit from jogging on the heart, because when the heart goes, anything goes. At this point, go in silence all parts of the body and run away.

So it goes with the Federal Ministry budget deficit and our national debt explode .. If we are unable to resolve our financial situation, nothing else matters. Similar to the heart when the financial foundations of our country is destroyed, then nothing else is irrelevant. You can not even speakglobal warming, a national program of energy, improving public schools, fighting drug abuse and defend the country and help those in need, create and maintain employment and economic growth, nothing else. When the heart is, no matter how strong your legs or the amount of air the lungs can pump. Like the heart, a sound fiscal policy makes it all possible.

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The severity of our fiscal emergency was reminded recently while reading the May 31, 2010 Issueby Business Week magazine. Said in a brief description, Business Week that the total debt of the United States, as May 26 was $ 12.996 billion. As we are now past that now, I think it's safe to assume that we have broken through the threshold of $ 13 trillion. What this means:

- A $ 13 trillion, the average family is on the hook for about U.S. $ 113 000 in debt. Since the government does not create wealth, can only confiscate wealth from its citizens, at some point we allresponsible for repaying the debt.
- A $ 13 trillion, every man, woman and child in the country for about $ 42,000. So, a family of four on the hook for about $ 168,000.
- Obama-10 The government's annual budget plan calls for another $ 8 trillion or so in the accumulated debt of the federal government, the promotion of all household debt of approximately $ 175 thousand, if nothing is done to change the trend.
- Last summer, Forbes magazine published an article whereEstimates of the total wealth of the 400 richest Americans. As an illustrative example of how big the federal debt is assumed that the federal government confiscated all the wealth of the 400 Americans. Their total assets, not their income, so that these seizure would be a stroke of time. The entire wealth could be seized was estimated by Forbes to be in this article is much less than $ 3 billion. Thus, the soaking and the failure of the rich do not pay close this explosionDebt from any U.S. born and lives in the foreseeable future, is responsible for much of this $ 13000000000000.
- From the point of view of freedom, we can not live in a free country, when the political class and the government in this country is burdened with a debt. Through the operation of such a huge deficit, a deficit that we all must pay down or suffer the consequences of failure, we lose our freedom, our wealth, we want to spend spend. We can not send our children to a betterSchool to start their own business, retire, if we want to help a charity or a sudden everyone in Las Vegas.

Enter, the dire situation of our district and the heart of what the future of the political class to keep busy with the last year or so:

- Member of Anna Eshoo of California and his staff were working on legislation to federally regulate the volume of television commercials. Never mind that viewers can turn off the sound, allowing you to change the channel, the spaceto get something to eat, fast forward on their DVR machine, or simply ignore TV for 60 seconds. Because the high deficits (and other great national problems), if the stain TV volume problem is so urgent?
- Congressman Jim Moran and his staff were busy trying to investigate if male erectile television commercials should be banned. I do not know it was so important, either. As Ms. Eshoo, let the real problems of budgetary and financial matters, knows that America and the work of DECommercials.
- Thaddeus McCotter Congress and his staff were busy working on legislation, up to 300 € a month the amount deducted, so that the unemployed do not have their pets for adoption. Perhaps if he and his staff on how to get America working again, who has worked to increase the income to pay the deficit, there would be no need for this program is ridiculous that would not be able to be prosecuted and would be filled of pitfalls.
- Hawaiian SenatorDaniel Inouye and his colleagues then used a bank in Hawaii to get the money saved by the FDIC after the FDIC, the Bank was determined not worth saving. It turned out that the senator had invested heavily in the bank, and stood to lose a lot of money if the bank was rescued by American taxpayers.
- Ex-Congressman William Jefferson of Louisiana was occupied, convicted of accepting bribes and sentenced to 13 years in prison. You may remember that Mr. Jefferson was caught with ice creamBribes in his freezer at home.
- Congressman Randy Cunningham too busy sentenced to eight years in prison for $ 2.4 million in bribes, was Congressman Bill Ney was busy trying to learn, two and a half years in prison for corruption, was a member of Congressman James Traficante, employs sentenced to seven years in prison for accepting bribes, and most of the former governors of Illinois have been busy both during prison time served in prison, or may soon go to prison time.
- 60% of the members of Congress sit on the Armed Services Committee were involved in receiving campaign contributions from companies that have much earlier pork barrel budget money was allocated.
- Congressman Charles Rangel of New York was involved, which examines a series of ethics violations, including but not limited to, failure to declare rental income, certain assets and other income.
- Fifty members and Republican women were preparing legislationImage Ulysses S. Grant 's on the 50 bill with Ronald Reagan to replace the image. Since the United States, will soon be worthless currency, if the debt is under control, this seems like a pretty useless exercise.
- Every member of Congress was the development of more than 11,000 earmarks and wasteful pork barrel spending programs used in the last federal budget for their states and districts of origin, the vast majority of which no more than a re-electionBadge for incumbents and those that exacerbate the huge deficit.

So, instead of solving the great problem, on which everything else depends decided, many members of the political class to the problems that America probably would not even top-50 concerns (TV, commercials and off the dog's) work, were engaged acceptance of bribes and / or where it was because of acceptance of bribes or engaged in money distraction, personal taxpayers' to their advantage. Returning to the analogy Snoopy and Peanuts,These politicians are worried about the cold and ear headphones or aggravate the veil while the body at the center of a heart attack.

Therefore, it is important to vote all incumbents in November and in an office, a new type of politician, which are the major problems facing the country realized that sound public finances is one of the most critical. We need new representatives who selflessly to act with courage and resolve to correct these problems. Listen to Snoopy, secure theHeart and then everything is possible.