Dear Politicians,

I keep hearing the phrase “American People” tossed around….here’s a perspective from one American Person. I’m willing to bet I’m not alone.

The deficit. There’s only one answer here….cut spending. Use the fine examples provided to you by many ‘American People’.

Many of us have had to learn to cut back, clip coupons, buy generic and sale items only, cut back on not only luxury items, but some necessities as well, and if we can’t pay with cash, do without, in short…. live within a budget. We’re buying things we need at garage sales, thrift and second hand stores when we can. We’re buying sale items only, researching to get every ounce of our dollars worth. We’re using things up until their worn out and then finding a way to fix them and use them some more.

Many ‘American People’ have elected to take a pay cut so other employees at their place of work can keep their jobs. Many more haven’t got paid overtime, gotten a pay raise, or a cost of living increase in years. A great place to start cutting spending is with your own salaries…not only do most of us feel you are paid waaaaaay too much, we think you should take a pay cut, be willing to do what so many ‘American People have done, who by the way, did not create this deficit in the first place…you did.

I work as a medical transcriptionist, predominantly in the psychiatric field. More and more in my work each week I’m transcribing reports about folks with no prior history of depression or suicidal tendencies who are feeling hopeless and helpless, indeed defeated, and feeling that suicide is their only way out. They’ve lost their jobs, with no hope for another one in sight. Many have lost their homes and their families as a result. Indeed, their ‘American Dream’ has been shattered.

Some thoughts on a few folks…

Joe Biden: Fat cat, blow hard. Perfect example of the problems in Washington.

John Boehner: Bless your heart for showing your sensitive side but………time to put aside the tissue box, grab that gavel, roll up your sleeves and get to work!

Nancy Pelosi: Pathetic. I can only feel pity for you. Here’s an idea, the next time you have thought, keep it to yourself.

First Lady Obama: Dining out, for a lot of folks now is a luxury, a treat, leave our menus the hell alone! It’s none of your business

You ever notice, you rarely get a butt shot of her. She has a strapped to it.


if I chose to eat a Big Mac Meal AND super-size it! Most restaurants already offer healthy alternatives, we’re just chosing not to take part, and that is OUR choice, not yours. The responsibility of seeing to it that kids eat healthy lies with their parents. So…you take care of yours, we’ll take care of ours!

President Obama: I can only shake my head at you and repeat the phrases I have so often shouted at the TV every time you speak…. Get a clue. Pick a side. Grow a spine.

His lack of experience is costing us dearly. His spine belongs to the special interest who paid for it.

Stand up something! Your medical bill…I work, but I still can’t afford health insurance and I won’t be able to any more if this bill passes than I can now and that’s the situation many ‘American People’ are facing. Insisting we all get health insurance and then fining us if we don’t only goes to prove how out of touch with the American condition your truly are.

Sarah Palin: Folks, leave her alone. Stop picking apart everything she says and does. It just makes you look petty and small, and most of us grew out of that kind of conduct in grade school.

The Extreme Lib. and Associates do that to distract from the REALITY of what Gov is up to.



I KNOW they are more constructive ways you can spend your time. I probably should have prefaced all of this with the fact that I don’t vote, haven’t in years, because I, like so many Americans feel if the election process isn’t corrupt, the politicians running for office surely are, and it really makes no difference who we ‘elect’….we’re doomed either way, but ….if she runs for presidency, I will, with wings on my feet, run to register to vote, for the first time in decades, to vote for her.

‘American People’…the working class, indeed, we are the back bone of this country, but we’re tired, we’re disillusioned, we’re losing faith and we’re fading fast. How much louder to do have to scream…Help Us?

One last note, I’m a Veteran. When you finally get around to ‘cutting spending’ leave our benefits the hell alone….we’ve already paid it forward.

Let me guess. You're TRYING to be offensive. I get it.

Increased, from a budget surplus when Bush took office, five times over the span of the Bush Admin.

This has been happening for years. You can't blame the current Admin for this. Esp. considering the last one nearly ruined the country.
Remember Obama was left this mess. He didn't create it!

Despite this however,
If you are working overtime without getting paid for it. Either your employer is breaking the law, or you have only your self to blame.
That isn't anyone's fault but your own. Report your employer, it's a law. Grow a spine and stand up for your rights.

This is the reality!

I'm not sure who this is directed at

Steaming load! Clinton's Deregulation of Lending set the stage for the disaster we have!

OK, then rationalize TARP for us!

How about what Obamacare really represents to America?

Not blame the current administration?

Time to wake up, coffee is brewing!

That was directed at somebody called Willing
What Clinton deregulation would that be? Gramm, Leach and Blilely are all Republicans.I'll tell you what I think about stimulus spending. Every dollar that goes through the Government is a jobs dollar. That is because every dollar that goes through Government is destined to become somebody's income. The Bush/Paulson bank bailout was a jobs program for bank executives and Wall Street traders. The Obama/Geithner LOAN to GM (now repaid) was a jobs program for middle class working people. What DOES Obamacare represent to America? I DO give President Obama credit for Obamacare. That's why it pleases me to have it referred to as "Obamacare.
Yup! I agree.

The progressive liberal and 'liberal affiliated' will always attempt to put down posters and attempt to profess a 'smarter than thou' attitude.

For some reason, they are allowed this leeway.

What are you trying to say here? Every government dollar spent is Jobs?

You got to be pretty stoned to say crap like that. Government COSTS money!

It does not make it other than to print it!

Trade makes money. Manufacturing makes money.

Speculation and Government spending makes NO money!

Where did you study economics?

What are you smoking? I want some

Here's something to ponder, lilbug. Much of that you say is mirrored by what the Egyptian people are saying about their government. In many respects, our situations ARE similar. Perhaps what's needed is a "revolt" similar to the one they're staging in Egypt, but not simply a revolt again the President, but a revolt against ALL elected officials. Just a thought.

Printing a piece of paper and calling it money is called conterfieting for a reason... It devalues the actual money in the measured market...

Printing money with no actual value backing that money up is CONTERFIETING... with the same result as if a criminal had done it.

Stimulus is when you pump money into a market that is not in that market by value (i.e. someone worked to create it within the measured market).

Stimulus is not 're-directing' money that allready exists within a measured market... Stimulus is placing a devalued 'counterfiet' money within that market... to much stimulus while colapse the measured market or make it 'worthless' to the point that 'investment' from outside will not occur.

Re-directing money in a measured market is STEALING from one group by fiat and giving it to another that has not earned it.

I may not have a 'degree' in economics but I have studied enough macro-economics to know that this is not good economics... A small amount of 'stimulus' can be a good thing... 'Stimulating' with a worthless or devalued 'money' in LARGE amounts causes MACRO-ECONOMIC colapse within the larger market.

No, I can see that you don't have a degree in Economics. Well, we're just back to opinions, and i think my opinions are better than yours.

OK, then rationalize TARP for us! How about what Obamacare really represents to America? How about that one? Not blame the current administration? So if you are driving a car you know has no brakes and drive it into tree who do we blame? The car? The tree it hits? Or do we blame the guy driving? Who is in the driver seat? Obama and cronies.

Time to wake up, coffee is brewing!

Which TARP?
The one that had no oversight or accountability which Bush signed into law or the one with all the checks, balances, accountability, and oversight that Obama signed.

I don't drive cars without brakes and Obama doesn't either.

Bush took office with a budget surplus. The surplus was being applied towards the deficit. Eight years, two wars later, and trickle down economics, whoala, the deficit had increased 5 times what it was when he took office.

Trickle down economics is like driving a car without brakes. Blame who or what you want but there is a big difference between inheriting a budget surplus and inheriting the worse economic catastrophe this country has faced since the Great Depression.

Do you deny that every dollar becomes somebody's income? The answer is yes.You seem to believe that money that goes to the Government disappears. Never to be seen again. That's not true. Every penny gets spent, one way or another. Government re-distributes money. For example, I pay taxes to the government. The government takes the money I gave to it and spends it on stimulus money to pay people to build roads, bridges, etc. Hope that clears this up. This is true. there is one and only one place in our economy where money is created, new money that didn't exist before. That takes place in the transaction that takes place between the commercial banks and the Federal Reserve when somebody takes out a bank loan. I don't remember the math that I learned about this, but it is the truth. This is not necessarily a bad thing. It need not cause inflation. Inflation is defined as too much money chasing too few goods. That means that, so long as productivity keeps up with the growth of the money supply, there will be no inflation. It's a good thing that new money can be created. Can you imagine our economy functioning with the same amount of money that existed in 1776?Not exactly true. Trade moves money. Only borrowing creates money. Manufacturing does not create money unless it is accomplished through borrowing. It creates value that is realized only when it is sold.Speculation and Government spending is not supposed to make money. Government spending is supposed to redistribute money to where it will stimulate demand, which will stimulate commerce, which will necessitate borrowing, which will create money.I studied Economics in my Graduate MBA program at Portland State University.I am a strong supporter of the movement to legalize all drugs.

I'm not sure who this is directed at...but as for me...I'm not trying to be offensive, that, of course, is against forum rules... Just driving home the point that the FL needs to take care of her own nutrition and leave the rest of us to tend to ours.