Let’s hold a debt summit

Standard and Poors has sounded the alarm. The time is right because both political parties agree there is a problem with our national debt.

We, as a country, seem to need a crisis to motivate Congress to act.

My suggestion is that the president’s Debt Commission call a meeting in a secluded place, maybe Los Alamos, N.M., with no press present.

The meeting would have a definite pre-announced time limit. Congress would put a hold on all other legislative matters until a debt resolution plan was presented. Mandatory attendance would be the entire commission, representatives of business and labor, Congressional budget leaders, Secretary of the Treasury, former Presidents Bush and Clinton and the Federal Reserve chairman.

Desperate times demand desperate measures.

Gary Snyder

St. Charles