dunt dunt dunt duhhhhh..... dunt dunt dunt duhhhh... (Beethovens victory theme), this might be what comes to mind when you think on the mess our country is in when it comes to our money (or lack thereof). Because we are in a mess, no matter what you say we are in a mess. No one can decide how it should be done, who should do it, how are we going to make sure everyone is benefited, and perhaps most importantly how are we going to pay for it...? HELLO! is anyone there? we don't have the money. Its not that hard of a concept. Think of it in kindergarten terms.... you have 6 chocolate chip cookies, you eat 4 cookies so now you only have 2. You want to matchbox car that Bobby will give you for 4 chocolate chip cookies so you go ask Susie if you can borrow 2 cookies. Now you have -2 cookies. You can't eat any because you don't have any and even if you did you would have to give them to Susie. Its not that hard!! we don't have the money so we cant get any. Until we can get ourselves out of debt we cant do anything. People dont realize how dangerous it is not to have money. We make enough money in a fiscal year that we coud pay off our defecit but we spend so much of it we can't even provide jobs, or health care for people! If we could just hold off the spending except for the most neccesary (like salaries and millitary => no extras) we could pay it off by the time Obamas out of office! then think what we could do next! we could keep the money we make we could budget and and save up for stuff like kids do. Theres a reason we teach this stuff to our kids - "you want that toy, then you need to save up your allowance..." we do it because thats how its supposed to be done. You can't spend what you don't have. We are $11,807,630,438,251** in debt.
We earn 14,466,112,000,000*- thats fourteen trillion, four-hundred and sixty-six billion, one-hundred and twelve million dollars!
I don't really see why we couldn't pay this off with some careful planing. We make THE MOST money as a nation, in the world!!!! thats a lot of money! I understantd its hard but if we cut out the unnecessary stuff and didnt try to pass anymore bills that would spend money we could do it. I wish someone in Washington had this kind of motivation to do this.
As a nation we think we need to have more money to have a national health care plan, we need money to get rid of our clunkers, we think we need things more than we really do.
"Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it."
Richard Lamm
We could do it. I wish we would. If this is what we think it is to live in America, than its sad really because it doesn't have to be like this. It should be our priority not to have our children paying for our mistakes.
~K.C.
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