If, and this is a big if,

If, they could guar­an­tee that the extra tax rev­enue would go to reduce the debt and secure the social secu­ri­ty sys­tem for the futures of our chil­dren and beyond, I believe that a major­i­ty of Amer­i­cans would in fact sup­port a tax increase how­ev­er so far we have seen noth­ing to make us believe that they can do what they say they would do.

They make promis­es then get into office and then they con­ve­nient­ly for­get they made the promise.

The facts are clear, most peo­ple would like­ly agree to pay more tax­es if they knew that with­out fail that mon­ey would be used effec­tive­ly to reduce our nation­al debt, I sus­pect that there are a lot of peo­ple that would pay a great deal of mon­ey to help out our nation in its time of need, how­ev­er with­out a fail-safe method of insur­ing that the mon­ey is not pif­fled, away as it has in the past, most peo­ple are not going to be OK with rais­ing “TAXES” or “REVENUE” but and I real­ly think this is accu­rate.

If it was put down in black and white, and under penal­ty of impris­on­ment, fines and jail time, (were one dime to go miss­ing or be unac­count­ed for then most Amer­i­cans would be for a tax increase) it is our way, to help out in times of need.

The thing is that we have not seen that lev­el of assur­ance over the last 50 years, yes, that means that we have had many pres­i­dents that have failed to man­age our debt effec­tiv­ly.

How­ev­er we do know a few things that will work, and we have seen it work in the past, so the only real way for­ward here it so do some­thing great, and not a great bar­gain, but a great thing, some­thing that the con­si­tu­tion would approve of doing, bal­lanc­ing the bud­get, not on the backs of the peo­ple but by sav­ing mon­ey that does not need to be pif­filed away.

This can be done with­out threat­ning the old peo­ple or the halt and the lame, this can be done with­out threat­ning our brave soilders who wage war so that we may be free.

It is non­sense to threat­en the old and the lame, and the sick and the blind and the dis­abled, that is hor­ror and should not be.

Our nation has the resources, we have the intel­lect, we can man­age our ener­gy we can man­age our resources so that we can pay our bills, we do not need this igno­rance in our soci­ety.

1. What we need, is a flat tax rate, (allow­ing for the poor­est amoung us to be pro­vid­ed for)
    
2. We need a bal­lanced bud­get amend­ment.
    
3. We need, a mod­est TAX increase and a bill to keep con­gress from wast­ing our mon­ey.
    
4. We need to take care of our old and our hurt­ing peo­ple, and it can be done, we are not broke, but we have been act­ing stu­pid­ly.
    
5. We need a capi­tol Tax hol­i­day, to free up capi­tol, 30 days should do it.
    
6. We, need to take back our nation from the FED…
    
7. We need to work togeth­er so that our chil­dren may have the oppro­tu­ni­ty to play togeth­er not be slaves togeth­er in the future, that is what we need, the only ques­tion that remains is do we have men on Capi­tol hill that will stand up for what is right? 

   That is what we need to do, it is so sim­ple yet, our politi­cians are so con­cerned with loos­ing face, that they can­not find a way to work togeth­er, act­ing like chil­dren on a play­ground rather than work­ing togeth­er, this includes the white house as well, because they have made mis­takes here as well as any­one else.

I tru­ly hope that we can find a way to emerge from this mess with the kind of back bone that our fathers and our grand fathers had when they faced down bul­lets on Oma­ha Beach, when they faced down evil and fought that we might have the free­dom we have today, if we fail in this how many dead will have giv­en their lives in vain?

Mil­lions and mil­lions of Men, Women, who gave every­thing so that we might be free, would have been silenced for no oth­er rea­son than pride?

Are we so vain in our own minds that we can­not see the total igno­rance and van­i­ty of this behav­ior?

Stand tall because that is what is required, what if our grand­fa­thers had not faced down evil in 1944 and 1945 would the world not be dif­fer­ent today in a very hor­ri­ble way?

If we allow Amer­i­can to fail, because we did not have the back bone to stand up against igno­rance and opres­sion then the voic­es of mil­lions of slain Amer­i­cans will cry out from the earth.

We sim­ply can­not do less than those who gave every­thing so that we might have the chance to be free from igno­rance.