Recently I have been studying about the economy in our great nation and the looming problems that we face. It is reported that the country is currently in 53 trillion dollars of debt – over $400,000 per household. This is ridiculous. If our government were a corporation, we would round them all up and haul them off to prison for the type of spending and corruption that is taking place. Remember Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, Martha Stewart and others? The crimes they committed are nothing compared to what is taking place today.

We are at a crossroads… There is very little time to take aggressive action to fix the problems that we face. If we sit still and do nothing we will be like the families who have purchased too large a home, to fancy a car or filled up the old credit card so high that they struggle just to make the minimum interest payments each month. The government is out of control and we have to make change – and it needs to happen soon.

CHANGE HURTS – Do you know what the most expensive parts of our government are right now? Military spending, Medicare and Social Security. If you dont beleive me, go take a look at the US Governments 2008 budget. Yeah thats right, they post it in plain sight yet hardly anyone ever seems to take a look at where everything is going – http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008

What do I mean by change hurts?  Well, if we make changes to the system it will hurt someone somewhere.  If you lower social security payments it hurts our retirees.  If you lower medicare benefits it hurts a vast number of people who rely on it.  The question is how do we fix the problem for the greater good of our country and how will those who are affected be taken care of?   If we continue at the current pace, we all lose.

I hope that opens your eyes a bit and makes you feel a pit in your stomache. It scared me when I first looked at the budget and where we are headed. The numbers are not that daunting until you realize that the 1,000 really is in millions or billions, not just 1,000.   Anyway, take a look and feel free to comment in the forums.