I pick up pennies in parking lots and nickels from gutters. They add up. Last year I was able to pay a utility bill with the jar full of change I collected in this manner.
Our current president has already begun his accumulation of campaign finance monies as I write this in May of 2011. The figures he intends to spend according to my sources are over a billion dollars. Add to that the sums projected for campaigning by other elected individuals (or hopefuls) to help them maintain their lofty status, and the figure would be quite astounding, wouldn’t it?
Rather than bludgeoning the public with campaign ads and accruing thousands of additional ‘frequent flyer miles’ wouldn’t you rather cast your votes for someone who had contributed all that money toward paying on the national debt?
Oh yeah, some will say. A billion or so is nothing compared to the immensity of our debt. Well, hey! It's a start. It helps. Hence my little jar of salvaged coins.
Selflessness was a virtue in early America
We have indeed become a welfare state, but the biggest welfare recipients are, by far, those who sit in Congress and occupy the White House. It has been that way now for many years… decades even. The nation’s leaders consider themselves to be entitled to riches sourced primarily in the sweat and stress of We The People.
Lower THEIR pay. Tax THEM. No exemptions. And no exceptions.
Now how’s that for being solution-oriented?
God Bless America
V.
