WE the People are required to fix it.

[REIN IN BIG GOVERNMENT OVERREACH]

Poor foresight by all Americans regarding Washington legislation have created decades of inept policies. A simple, strategic, powerful fix to jump start the process:

 28th constitutional amendment: Yearly Balanced Budget Required

Balanced definition:

Debt to GDP ratio

>35% =   balanced               

<35% =   allow 10% extra yearly spending

This will not be easy to get congress to enact. The good news is we don’t need Washington to move this: The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures.

It will take only one state to get the ball rolling!!!!!!! A STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION!!!!!!!

In the current movie on Abraham Lincoln,  President  Lincoln gets opposition party Congressmen  to support his  bill (the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery) through Congress.  Yes, Lincoln gave political favors, bought or rented votes,  to opposition Democratic, pro-slavery Congressmen, but he won.  IMO, Abe Lincoln was the best U.S. president ever.

I don't get Obama and the Democrats approach to getting a budget:  if all 195 or so Democratic Congressmen vote for the Obama budget plan, then Obama needs to get only about 30 Republican Congressmen to either vote Yes or to Abstain.  Why aren't Obama and Nancy Pelosi courting Republican Congressmen who will vote for a reasonable budget?  There are conservative Republicans who will vote for the budget.

Obama needs to influence, cajole, and yes "rent" Republican votes.  Lincoln did it; so did Reagan, Kennedy, LBJ, and other effective presidents.  Then the Democrats will own the budget and cannot keep blaming Republicans.

Grow up, Democrats and Republicans.  We are a democracy; make a deal for the good of the country and move on.

Boehner gave me a good laugh yesterday.He said "I`m concerned about the middle

class"I believe in Santa Claus in 4 days too.LMAO.

Boehner really doesn't care what happens on the hill now that most of his "talking pets" have run away - he knows he is set for life rather he is the speaker or not and that we, the American tax payer, will be paying his bills for as long as he lives... Boehner is the perfect example of the "Peter Principle". Stay drunk and have a happy holidays Boehner - with any luck we won't have to listen to you too much longer....... 

We need jobs.  All the fiscal cliff rhetoric has produced not a single job.  All they are doing is arguing over the insufficent funds in the Treasury and how to possibly re-distribute them.  Without increasing revenue in a meaningful way overspending will increase. 

Jobs should increase right now at a rate of , say, 200,000 new jobs per month more than the number of new young people entering the job market.  That would be about 450,000 jobs per month, and as we are all aware it isn't happening. 

Short of creating new jobs, a solution would be to double everybody's taxes.  This would still be a tad short since we spend $2.06 for every $1.00 revenue right now.

Another solution would be to defer future military spending until such time we can afford it.  Combine this with the limitation of unemployment benefits to 12 weeks, and stopping all cost of living increases for Social Security, again, until such time we can afford it.  Defer half of all pensions until such time we can afford them.  This combination of things could do the trick.