Tell ‘em to spend less or find job elsewhere

The more we talk about serious trends, the more we must find a way to cope with these accurately described sets of conditions that keep coming at us without anything of meaning being done about them.

We have formed a bipartisan group of 36 senators to urge the emphasis on our government to draft a bill that includes tax reform, immediate and long-term spending cuts, caps and other deficit reduction measures equaling $4 trillion a year.

We simply must change the way we live with the absolutely necessary reduction in all aspects of our private and public life.

Reducing our debt will help stabilize the economy while sending an important signal to global markets that the U.S. is committed to reduced debt and responsible spending.

The chief threat to our economic future is runaway spending and debt.

We will need shared sacrifice across the government to cut spending in our way of life, balance the budget and put us on a path to future prosperity.

There are the right words, but they don’t tell us what we must do individually and must not do collectively. Today, the federal government borrows nearly 40 cents of every dollar being spent and it will pay $266 billion on interest on our debt this year alone.

In August, Standard & Poor’s, a top credit rating agency, downgraded the credit of the United States for the first time. Yet many in Congress support more spending and borrowing to advance bailouts and stimulus.

See or write your congressman and senators and tell them they must resist any failure to stay within budgetary limits that they have already voted to live within.

Don’t be nice, be mean and tough, and offer not to vote for them if this deficit doesn’t begin to shrink.

Chuck Barr

St. Charles