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Most Americans are unaware that they owe over $80,000 in Federal debt. They’ve never seen or had $80,000! Included is every person living in America, citizen or not (all 330 million of us). $80,000 plus!
Our President and other elected representatives do not tell you this. They are spending the future of our grandchildren on a limitless binge with no motivation or plan to pay it back. Know that there has not been a balanced Federal budget in the last twenty (20) years.
The blame lies with Congress and the President. They are responsible for our fiscal policies. Presidents (Bush, Obama and now Trump) have not vetoed excessive spending in twenty years! Yet, we keep sending them back to Washington every two, four or six years on their “promise to pay”.
Instead – as with some of our states, like NC – the Feds have no “rainy day fund” set aside for disasters. So, they end up borrowing more and more. Many states are required by constitutional law to balance their budgets. Not the Feds. Congress has tried a sequestration strategy. It never worked. Republicans blame Democrats; Democrats blame Republicans. They can’t get it together.
In Trump’s (and Congress’) tax act of December 2017, the top 1% of earners received a tax break of $1.7 million EACH, according to the New Yorker. That is simply ludicrous!
It is obvious that the President and far too many Congresspersons have given-in to short-term politics, which is simply put: get re-elected, no matters what. And the “gravy train” goes on another 2-6 years.
Citizens, we as voters must demand a Congress that seriously considers balancing the Federal budget each year and a President who promises to veto any bill that challenges that principal. If we accomplish that much for 2021, maybe by 2022 we can elect a Congress that will seriously face up to our debt crisis instead of “kicking the can on down the road” as they have done for these past twenty (20) years.
H. Theron Few, Mebane
Letter: Suggests moving monuments to a single location
Regarding recent pieces that discuss the place of Confederate monuments in public life, I would like to offer a suggestion to the Daughters of the Confederacy. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Daughters, mourning their military defeat and The Lost Cause, took up a winning strategy by finding a new cause: placing cement statues in the most public, government-connected spaces possible, courthouse lawns.
Now the Daughters, and their supporters, could promote a new way of protecting their embodiments of secession by funding a Hallowed Hall where removed statues could be lined up in the manner of the Terra Cotta Soldiers of Xian. Admission could be charged to view their celebration of Concrete Confederates in whichever locale would welcome them, perhaps Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Pamela Hale, Elon
This article originally appeared on Times-News: Letter: More fiscal responsibility needed by Feds
