My wife and I work very hard to earn a living and we are very careful in how we spend our money. I support an amendment to the U.S. Constituiion that would deny the Federal Government the ability to borrow money, effective 1 January 2000, with a gradual decrease in deficit spending over the next 8 years. As long as congress has the ability to generate revenue by raising taxes, there is no justification for borrowing. Borrowing is easy, taxing has ramifications at election time. Congress must prioritize.
Fiscal responsibility is in the long term interests of liberals as well as conservatives.
There is no extra money to pay for this program and the voters will not tolerate any new taxes. The interest on the national debt this year was 250 billion dollars. These dollars don t create jobs or pay for national health care, they just disappear into the pockets of T-bill investors. This issue is simply being used to divert the voters attention from the real problems and will die shortly after the election. Until the timber industry, as a whole, accepts this fact, there really isn t anything that I can or should do to open up more federal forests to timber harvesting.