YOUR DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS: BANKRUPT IDEAS, BANKRUPT RHETORIC, BANKRUPT THE NATION

As we get closer and closer to the 2012 presidential election, you're going to hear a lot of scaremongering.  You're going to hear people talking about cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, telling you how bad it is.  You will hear how Republicans want to destroy our nation.

Truth is, we're on a collision course.  Our nation is essentially bankrupt.  We cannot sustain our standard of living, or the coming entitlement collapse.  This house of cards will collapse if Congress keeps trying to BUY your vote with its empty promises.

These people-Democrat and Republican-have a responsibility to cut.  I didn't put Republican in the title, because it is the Democrats who are the most utterly irresponsible when it comes to these issues.  But they're (THE POLITICIANS) all making a mess of things.

I received a survey from my Republican Representative, and I left these comments at the bottom of the form, for what it's worth (I've omitted his name):

""NAME HERE" by not cutting spending, congress is accelerating the speed of America's demise.  We don't want to hear excuses.  Cut spending, whatever it takes.  Congress does not deserve permission to spend more of the taxpayers' money.  Buying our votes with "free" handouts cannot last forever.  Congress needs to have some guts.  Stand up to those who won't cut spending.  We can't afford to wait any longer."

I don't know if he'll get it, but it is my two cents.  When you have a chance, go up to YOUR congressman, whoever he or she is, and tell them this.  Write hand-written letters.  Make phone calls.  Talk to their aids relentlessly.  Be a real pain in the you-know-what.  Use these words or something like them.  And if they don't do it, work and campaign to vote them out.  All citizens must bring about change.  The money is not THEIRS.  It's YOURS, and they're spending it. 

Think the rich will suffer?  Heck no!  They will A) move to another country B) pass their expenses on to you when the taxes are raised.  You will pay in lost jobs and wages.  Not the rich (the so-called 1%).  Get it?  So quit punishing yourself, and be part of the solution, not part of the problem.  Make congress spend less.  Period.  THEY are the real problem.  And if they don't, take their job and give it to someone else, by VOTING.  Do it at town, state, and national levels.  You can't expect real results if you allow your city, county, state, and national officials to keep their jobs for 40 years without serious expectations that they actually do something about the problems and cut spending.   We can't afford to wait.

Food for thought articles:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/282556/romney-right-medicare-editors

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/282463/we-re-still-not-cutting-jim-demint