Defining the single most important political issue of the approaching presidential election.

Say what you like about marriage laws and protecting frogs but until we find a solution to the economic woes, these other things are moot.

Right now we are suffering a trade deficit and what can only be called ‘economic constipation’. The main problem is that those on the hill don’t seem to realize the well has run dry.  To see it their way, the U.S. citizen represents a bottomless pit of money and their spending habits reflect it.

Washington has caused the average citizen to support special interests for so long, it has finally choked off the money flow.  Businesses are forced to close and jobs are lost. So far, the reaction from Washington has been to ask for more and more money instead of putting it back into society.  Supporting something like a new museum in North Carolina, seems to be not only a waste of time but certainly tightening the strangle hold on the tax payer.

There have even been threats to rob Social Security, as though it is some sort of charity.  It’s not a charity, it’s a program the government forced onto the citizens, in the effort to make sure each individual retires on their own income.  For that reason, it not only does not make sense to rob the program, it is not the answer to today’s financial woes.

Keep the welfare programs and dump the special interest projects and there should be enough money to work with, without further taxing the citizens.  We should do away with every program that does not benefit the population in general.  A bridge somewhere, is not beneficial to the entire population unless we happen to all be headed that way and have need of that bridge.

Businesses, corporations, that supply jobs should be offered tax incentives, not further taxing, driving them out of business. Focusing on the trade deficit and doing everything humanly possible to balance that budget, will cure the problems with business in general, thereby providing jobs.  Jobs help to make the world go around.  Killing jobs, kills the economy.

To top it all off, congress passed a law giving them a percentage raise every year.  Considering that the balance it higher every year, that percentage has already grown into an enormous amount.  That’s one law that needs to be altered.  No citizen is promised any such living expense raises every year, why should congress?

It may sound too simplistic to say that balancing the budget and leveling the playing field internationally will cure most of our problems but the fact is it will.

It makes no sense to force citizens in one state, to support something special in another state.  All this does is raise those taxes more and more.  Right now, our country suffers from a constipated condition where the solution seems to be more chocolate.  That doesn’t make sense.

All an all, our government needs to start acting like a business manager instead of a selfish child with no responsibility at all.

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