I originally wrote and published this in 2012. I felt it needed to be brought back up.
I've been listening to C-Span on almost a daily basis, and I keep hearing the rhetoric over President Obama and his policies that are increasing our National Debt. Well, to all of the GOP Candidates, Tea Party members, and anyone who is trying to put all of the blame on the President, it's time you PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS. If each and every one of us were to commit to say $5.00 a week for 1 year to be used to assist in paying down the Public Debt, perhaps the debt would begin to lower.
Also, I do agree that we need to reform our current tax system it needs a complete overhaul, but I don't think that we need to harm those the most in need in order to accomplish this. There is waste and abuse in spending in our current system across the entire country. But I digress, time to get back to the real issues.
First of all, we still have not dug out of our current recession, the housing market is still slow, the job market also is slowly generating new jobs. It's the least wealthy that are usually willing to give of themselves, than the wealthy. While the wealthy are usually prominent philanthropists, most of their philanthropy is directed to other countries rather than directed to the needs here in our own.
So back to my theme for this article, if five dollars were set aside each and every week for one year by each and every Adult American, both those unemployed & employed, and compiled into a lump sum payment each year, we'd probably see a marked decrease in our overall debt in a short time. To those who can afford much more than $5.00 a week they could contribute. Look at all of these Super PACs raising money for political campaigns, if we took only the voting population and took that total of $260.00 a yr and multiplied it by only the voting population (which was 127.5 million in 2004) that would be equal to 331.5 billion dollars a yr to help pay down the Debt. The one good thing about doing it this way would be that according to law, if we as Americans directed the Treasury as to where our extra payment went to by law, if we tell them this money is to be used to pay down the debt they have to apply this to the debt and not put it into the general fund, or apply it to any programs whatsoever.
So I challenge each and every one of us, to start setting aside just $5.00 a week, and at the end of the year send a Check to the US Treasury for $260.00 with the words "Pay Down The Debt" in the For line at the bottom, and see what happens. If you can afford it, I'm curious, how many of us would be willing to help, so that those most in need, wouldn't end up getting hurt by what the GOP wants to do.
Since our Politicians can't seem to work together, it's up to us as caring and compassionate members of this country to step up and take the reins. So if you are going to help, post a comment to the end of this and say I'll do it! Let's flood the US treasury with 127.5 million (more or less) checks in the amount of $260.00 on December 31st 2012!
Pay Down the Debt Campaign begins now!
