In an article I read today about the new budget and how the government is voting to raise the debt ceiling (which is a joke in the first place) by another 1.9 trillion dollars ( another $6,000 for EVERY US Resident – notice I said resident not Citizen or person who can vote).  Here was a portion that stood out to me:

“We don’t have a choice,” said Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn. “We are on an unsustainable march toward a fiscal Armageddon.”

Obama’s budget projects the government’s debt doubling to $26 trillion over the next decade. It offers few solutions for seriously closing the gap other than promising to appoint a bipartisan commission to come up with a plan to address the problem.

I have a solution for you Mr. President and all members of Congress and the Senate…  STOP SPENDING MONEY YOU DONT HAVE.  Its really that simple.  You work hard, you earn money, you can spend that money.  You dont have the money, you do without.  I know it looks nice to send millions of dollars to other countries in foreign aid, buy lots of new buildings, hire lots of government employees to enforce new legislation that you feel it is your duty to pass, and to sit around at your coctail dinners and enjoy all your nice benefits of retirement for spending 4 years of your life working hard.  However, the other 99.9% of us work for 40+ years to have a retirement, we struggle just to make our house payments and rent and when we dont, we get kicked in the rear on our way out the door.  Maybe it is time to kick MOST of you out the door and send you packing with NO retirement benefits, no extra bonuses and no bailouts.
ITS ECONOMICS STUPID.  As the electronics geek or computer user would say: RTFM – go look that one up.