My first suggestion would be to blanket freeze ALL Federal disbursements, including ALL Social Security and Public Assistance spending, at 2010 levels. No increases in per capita spending for anything unless human life is directly threatened. Then maintain that level of spending until the tax base catches up and exceeds it slightly.

Next would be a 10% force reduction in ALL Federal employment categories exclusive of Military and Law Enforcement. This could be accomplished by attrition and may take some time.

Next would be a 2% - 5% payroll reduction through salary reduction for ALL Federal employees receiving more than $75,000.00 annually.

There seems to have been some talk about increasing the retirement age. This sounds good on the face of it, but taking forty years to accomplish seems a little pointless. I would propose, instead, that the retirement age start being adjusted immediately.

Those who are currently within two years of retirement remain on schedule. 64 and above, retirement age remains stable.

Those who are currently more than two years from retirement need to wait an extra year. 62-63, retirement age becomes 66.

More than four years from retirement currently wait an additional extra year. 60-61, retirement age becomes 67.

More than six years from retirement currently wait another additional year. 58-59, retirement age becomes 68.

Eight years from retirement currently, add another year. 56-57, retirement age becomes 69.

Those who are currently ten years or more from retirement age would then become eligible for retirement at 70 years of age. 55 years of age and under, retirement age becomes 70.

Also require that ALL Federal employees contribute at least ten percent of their salary to their own retirement account and contribute significantly, at least fifty percent of the cost, to their healthcare insurance and include these as part of their total compensation package. Then limit maximum retirement disbursement to about 100% of the final annual salary earned by the retiree plus paid healthcare. Persons who are employed by the Federal Government are PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, they are supposed to work FOR the Citizens of the United States of America; their compensation should be directly dependent upon the ABILITY of the U.S. Taxpayer to support them; PUBLIC SERVANTS should not be allowed to demand more when our Nation is already so deeply in debt just because they want it.

Next would be to mandate Employment Eligibility Verification, E-Verify, for all Public AND Private sector employers. Back this up with very strict enforcement and penalties stiff enough to fund the program directly and help to defray the costs associated with unemployment and joblessness. There are about 15 Million+ U.S. Citizens who are out of work but want employment. There are also about 12-20 Million+ Undocumented Foreign Nationals living and working illegally inside the United States. What would be the effect if those Undocumented Foreign Nationals were unable to seek or find employment within the United States? At least a third of those U.S. Citizens who now want work but cannot find it should be able to find jobs. This would remove them from the rolls of tax consumers and create Taxpayers thus broadening the Tax Base. Deny all non-emergency public assistance funds to Undocumented Foreign Nationals who are within the United States illegally and then limit access to any emergency funding to the control and stabilization of the immediate life threatening circumstance only.

Please note that this is not an immigration policy, it just acknowledges that only those who are U.S. Citizens, Natural or Naturalized, Documented Foreign Nationals legally within the United States, and Legal Resident Aliens are entitled to recognized legal status within the United States of America.

Finally, we must recognize that energy is needed to do things. Limiting access to that energy simply limits productivity. The United States could become energy independent if we really wanted to. Oil, Coal, and Natural gas are the current standards, and yes they are dirty. We have the Natural Reserves here inside the United States to allow ourselves to become energy independent if we would only make use of them. Instead, we artificially limit the supply and thus create an inflated market while also retarding the ability of that market to produce. Unfettering the energy producers here inside the United States while requiring even stricter standards would probably result in more overall productivity. If I could produce twice as much product but had to spend 25% of my profits to make it non-polluting, I would still see a 50% net increase in productivity while rendering a cleaner product.

And then there is still Nuclear. If we were to concentrate on short-term containment of waste, 50 to 100 years, while allowing the advancement of the science, we could probably find better means of producing Nuclear power while improving the containment issues as well in the mean time.

Again, improving energy access could only act as a shot in the arm for our economy. Mining those resources here at home would also create an additional source of revenue as much of the land I am referring to is currently Federally administered, The U.S. Government could administer leasing out of the land for exploitation and then use the fees and royalties to offset Federal expenses and reduce the National Debt.

I have hit on only four major topics here, the cost of the Federal Government to carry out day to day operations, the cost of entitlements, the cost of supporting Undocumented Foreign Nationals who have no right to be within the United States and their impact on our domestic jobs market, and energy issues. I honestly believe that these factors have a significant impact on the continuing fiscal viability of the United States of America.

A Forty-Year Plan is next to useless, especially when it seems to only amount to about $100B per year. The United States needs swift and decisive action. Yes, we must proceed with caution, but inaction and over cautious slowness of action will be worse. The DEBT CRISIS is NOW; we do not have a luxury of time to face this crisis. So far as I can tell, the plans circulated so far barely even address a portion of the current interest on our current National Debt.

Currently, our Federal Government is behaving like a very spoiled BRAT who goes out and purchases something they know they cannot afford then demands more money in order to pay for it, regardless of whether that money is available or not.

That BRAT needs to be spanked!

Thank You

Douglas J. Howard

So much for listening to the will of the people only 23% of the people want to extend the tax cuts for the wealth. The rest of Americans are against it. These guys don't care either. They just want to pad their wallets.

Stop the John Boehner scam: Give Ron Paul monetary subcommittee chair

I don’t believe in war. It’s irrational. We all lose. If I’m forced into war, I’m in it to win, whatever it takes. If I’m forced into war, I’m not my brother’s keeper. The only rule is kill or be killed. What are we doing in Afghanistan? How has it protected us? We are spending money we don't have and sacrificing American lives.

The United States has not won a war since World War II. U.S. leadership has taken the position of world police force. The U. S. has appointed itself to make the rules. What makes others play by U.S. rules? We note that others play by their rules. We the people pay a terrible price. Under the law of all times, the individual sets the standard by which he lives. What has the United States accomplished by setting standards for the world?

America’s Constitution is based on personal responsibility and self-reliance. The United States has taken upon itself, with certain ideas of fairness in mind, to make itself, unconstitutionally, a redistribution force, as to the nation’s sweat, and more lately in the redistribution of free speech. We are being reeducated to think no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil, good and evil being in the eyes of the authorities. The same as in other nations, we Americans are consciously aware that the United States, drunk with power and promoting war, it is time to stand and be counted. Mankind's enemy is at the U.S. helm.

Jesus said we should beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing. He said we should turn the other cheek and go the extra mile, but he also said you can’t serve two masters. Is that hard to understand? A Christian accused me of being a secular humanist. A secular humanist is someone who promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrine, which explains both Christians and secular humanists. Jesus was not a Christian.

A Christian is someone promoting religious doctrine, using Jesus. A Muslim is someone promoting religious doctrine, using Mohammad. Muslims are in a holy war (holy war taking on different intensities) against all who don’t accept their religious doctrine; the United States in police action against “enemy combatants.” It is all a play on words. So what if I don’t accept religious doctrine or anyone dictating the rules! It does not change the fact that it is people killing other people, the definition of war, unless you happen to be a self-appointed rule maker. Rule makers are magicians. They turn dung hills into rose gardens, whatever it takes to make their noble ends everyone’s reality. Bible thumpers tell me I misinterpret the Bible. So why don’t we all get along? We are not created with hive mentality.

I’ve been giving you the latest scientific understanding of creation. Without consciousness nothing would exist. Humanity is apart from lower life forms with greater conscious awareness. If you choose to be a lower form of life, jump through authority’s hoops, it is your choice. It isn’t my choice.

What is wrong with Americans,

No one that I talk to actually has any idea what in the world is going on in our country. They talk about the Bush tax cuts for being for the rich, But they do not take the time to read or understand what the tax cuts do. They think that Arizona is a racist state for wanting to control imigration, But do they read or understand what is going on.....NO I lived in Phoenix and I can tell you they have a major problem with illegals and it is just not hispanics it is also asians they have a large illegal asian populaton. People say oh but they have been here awhile let thm stay. BullSh-T. My question is this if you are caught in a forein country without document what will happen to you. Now the biggest problem we have in this country is the media and their liberal views poisioning the minds of desent people. They are like a rancher bringing feed to the trough and watch all the people line up just like cattle. We have been conditioned for the herd mentality we let them rope us off and make us move thru a maze at the bank, movie theater. I never thought I would have to be a rat in a maze to buy popcorn. We need some honest people who are not afraid to speak not afraid to take on the fat cat politicians who only care about what they can get from special interest groups..Now are you a person with a mind capible of inteligent thought or are you cattle..Think about it.

Just remember :

Don't become a Democrat

Don't become a Republican

Just Become Pissed and lets take our Country Back

Dream Act? How about Nightmare Scenario?

It seems funny, well odd anyway, that nobody seems to recall that there was a huge, and quite controversial at the time, Immigration Reform in 1986. The Undocumented Foreign Nationals ( I REFUSE TO REFER TO THEM AS IMMIGRANTS IN ANY MANNER WHENEVER AVOIDABLE ) who were then illegally living and working inside the United States were granted amnesty if they met certain, very minimal prerequisites.

In return, there was to be a significant strengthening of our border controls and a concerted effort to prevent new Undocumented Foreign Nationals from sneaking into our Country illegally or being employable, or able to reside here comfortably if they were to do so.

Well, the Undocumented Foreign Nationals, about three or four Million of them when there were only supposed to be about two Million, got their U.S. Citizenship, but nothing much seems to have ever been done to stem the cause of the problem.

Now the claim is that there are another twelve to twenty Million Undocumented Foreign Nationals that have since managed to invade our Nation. If that is comparable to the 1986 estimate, could we actually be looking at more like
twenty to thirty Million Undocumented Foreign Nationals living and working illegally inside the United States, OR MORE?

This Dream Act is not a dream but much more like a Nightmare.

Let us insist that the Law(makers?) who want this “DREAM Act” legislation first spend the next twenty or thirty years living up to the enforcement portion of the bargain that was agreed to in 1986.

The Undocumented Foreign Nationals who were living and working illegally within the United States have already gotten their part of the comprehensive reform, Amnesty in 1986.

Now, it is time for the Citizens of The United States to be provided with the other half of the bargain, Enforcement of our Immigration Laws and expulsion of the Undocumented Foreign INVADERS.

We have an unemployment problem here in the United States. There are about 15 Million U.S. Citizens who want, but cannot find, work. What would happen if the Undocumented Foreign Nationals now living and working illegally inside the United States were to suddenly become unemployable? Would that not open up several million jobs for U.S. Citizens who want and DESERVE them?

What would that do for our economy? Several million U.S. Citizens working and paying taxes instead of living on taxpayer provided funds. Several million Undocumented Foreign Nationals no longer having access to those same taxpayer provided funds. Would that not put a major dent in the Federal Deficit? Maybe even help to reduce the National DEBT?

Quisling was only one lawmaker in the 1930's in Holland. Look what he did. How many Quislings do we now have in similar positions here in the United States?

When it comes to choice, the path of least resistance, the choice most often made can lead to dire consequences. That’s where America is now. Far more is being taken out of America’s economy than is being put in, and more on the way, with Senator Reid’s dream of amnesty, the most important thing of all at this crucial time to Senator Reid and Democrats. Clearly, we’re at a point when hard choices must be made. You will get nothing from Democrats but the same failed answers.

What are Democrats leading us to? Today’s blog comes to mind after viewing Herman Wouk’s War and Remembrance, a disc set first broadcast on TV. This is a good time to view this great dramatization of the first global war, World War II, which was brought about by the worst monster in human history, Adolph Hitler. I was there to witness what he caused, one of the ten percent of World War II veterans still alive. There is no reason to think Germany’s fate can’t be reenacted in America. How it happened is something we all need to think about long and hard. Thanks to Democrats, we are heading in Germany’s direction prior to World War II, to financial collapse. When the German people were looking for whom to blame, Hitler blamed Jews. Jews owned most of Germany’s industry. Hitler was wrong. Actually, according to economist Milton Friedman, it was none other than our Democrats that led the world to Depression and Germany’s financial collapse.

Whatever it takes, we must submit to a balanced budget. Whatever it takes, we must return to the constitutional principles that made America great; that is, personal responsibility and self-reliance, which is a do-it-yourself thing. Never depend on government. It’s the kiss of death.

Big government, the responsibility of Democrats, is making the American people dependent on government. Redistribution of the wealth is responsible for a weak economy, a weak economy responsible for more government dependency. Democrats engaged in class warfare are responsible for America being as divided as during the Civil War. The level of anger is building. When emotions are high, anything can happen.

To listen to the politicians bickering; they give us no answer at all, the American people are vulnerable to any answer, rest assured, with some to blame. That’s always part of it. Is it going to be greedy capitalists or government dependents to blame? Given the level of anger, and in War and Remembrance I saw men, women, and children being stripped naked, beaten and kicked on their way to their slaughter in vivid and ghastly detail, does it boil down to who America’s sheep are going to be? Already you are being groped, for the good of all. Next will it be stripped, kicked and beaten to your demise? While Jews were being machine gunned by the thousands, a German audience, amused at what was taking place, watched it happen. Who was to blame? Having lived and learned, do you blame Jews for fighting for their right to exist. What do Democrats and Obama want? Obama doesn’t favor Jews. He apologizes for America. I’ve yet to hear him say exactly what he wants to make America. Americans must demand their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or lose all that those who came before fought to gain.

It’s unbelievable how humans can be manipulated. Look at Democrats. How can you know that it will not be you who is stripped, kicked and beaten to your slaughter, while others watch in amusement, of course for the good of all? Yep, the end result justifies the means—and the whole process begins again. Look at what Democrats have already done to your rights, of course for the good of all. How much do Democrats care about your rights, poking around your groin for no cause? It’s an outrage! The poverty stricken begging Obama to hold the course, Democrats are slow learners. Why are so many impoverished? They depend on government and they could care less about whose money they take. They take no personal responsibility. It is simply help me through the night. Democrats have Nazi mentality. I can envision Democrats sending sheep to their slaughter. Power and control is the name of their game. The time for soft talk is over. Look at history. Democrats could care less about whose life they take. Only you can stop this vicious cycle. Watch Democrats run for the hills when you decide you are not going to take it anymore. Watch Republicans toe the mark.

Religion is good, religion is a sensitive topic, religion has no place in politics or contreversy. Their are about 21 different major religions so according to the "hard core beleivers" 20 of the religions are wrong. Beleive in whatever you wish, whatever makes you sleep good at night. One should not receive any special privledges for their religion nor should they be aloud to have holy wars. Most of our founding fathers were deist as I am. If you are not aware what that is, look it up. It is the only religion that makes sense. It is peaceful and If the deist community would grow the world would be a much more peaceful place.

When did we start allowing people to run over us? Did it start when a woman was able to sue McDonalds for spilling her hot coffee on her self or what? People are scared to let someone know when they are wrong. America babies everyone. The truth is sugardaddy is out of money and it's time to use a stiff arm. Nobody wants to say that the 22 year old single mom with four kids shouldn't recieve welfare, but at what point do we have to set boundries? Single teenage moms benefit from over half of all medacaid. It's time to stop being friendly and tell people they are F'd up. Maybe if these people had role models in their life growing up they wouldn't be this way. At some point we have to end the madness, and we can't do that by rewarded stupid people with a check every month. Who cares if gays are upset and want to be treated fairly? They are wrong and sorry but we have more important things to worry about than your feelings. If someone is 50 years old and have been living off the government for years and years (we all know at least one) they need to be cut off. Maybe they are better off dead, they are a burden to society. These political games going on in Washington should be illigal and they should be punished for acting childish. The fact that half of the decisions made are revolved around elections it outrageous. The two party system needs to be abolished for good. George Washington tried to warn us of political parties and we did not listen.

Every four years since I can remember ( the past 35 years ) I've woken up to the same song playing on the political radio. We have these people running for the highest office our country has to offer, President of the United States of America. A number of people get in the race for this prestigous office with hopes of becoming their parties nominee and ultimately President. During all of the candidates campaigns over the years I've heard these same Top five oldies but goodies played over and over and over again. We must fund education in this country / We must reform and save Social Security / We must lower taxes for the average American / We must reform medicaid / We have to reduce the deficit for this country to prosper. So let's review for a moment. We have two parties singing the same songs leading up to Ground Hog day which lasts for months and months and months. Finally when the dust settles and Ground Hog day arrives we pick the person who sang those top 5 songs the best. Hmmm, what's wrong with this picture? I think the same things will be the platforms for all parties yet again. Any ideas to stop the 40 year insanity ? You would think by now we wouldn't have any issues on S.S , Education, Taxes, Medicare, Deficits etc... Because all who were previously elected by us over the past 40 years have accomplished what they ran on. Who's fooling who ?