Fix The Debt

Unite the Nation

Patty Korkowski

My Story

Michael Smith

My Two Cents

Erold Jackson

Leading by setting an example

Steve Mallett

Create stability for private commerce and prosperity

Edward Sachs, Jr.

Saving the USA

Ali reda Jeafar

From a History Teacher

Andrew Burns

We need to use our resources in far more efficient ways

Philip Pella

U.S. Debt and Reasons Why We Never Seem to Get Anywhere

RICKY MAHAN

We need to live without fear of retirement erosion.

John Yorgason

Our economy is suffering due to this manufactured crisis

Sue Hinton

Let's leave a sound America for our children.

Mika Brewer

Holding off on retirement -- for over five years

Susan Byers

We Are Not Pawns on a Game Board, We Are "The People"

Judith LaValley

The first legislation should be to avoid sequestration and set a time limit to fix the debt.

Terry Clark

Retirement - Lost

Michael Brook

Establish a credible and measurable debt reduction plan

Chuck Waggoner

America, Land of the Indentured Servant

Dave Pruett

Why Fixing the Debt Matters to Me

EILEEN BARTON

Borrowing 40 cents for every dollar gov spends does NOT make sense

John Lucas

Legacy

James Stock

Our Children's Future

Gary O'Connor

Maintaining our strength in the future

Meg Reese

Fixing the debt is easy to do

Joshua Smith

We elected you to run the Government-NOW DO IT

Alfred Starr

What Happened to our Country?

Eugenia Patterson

Those of you with the power to fix this debt need to come to one mind on this and take necessary action. Your courage to do this, despite threats from irrelevant and greedy special interest groups, will set you apart…

D Lee

An Investment Advisor's Perspective

Marc Penner

I don't want my grandchildren saddled with a debt they will never be able to repay. I want to leave them a country BETTER than the one I grew up in.

Fran Welstand

Focus on the future

Elise Abramson

Normally debt is a good thing if you have reserves set aside and or you income is sufficent enough to make periodic payments. Otherwise, accumulating debt can destroy a family business and even the US Govermnent.

Thomas Sweeney

I have been a CPA for more than 40 years and have been able to sit down and tell a client their tax liability within dollars until the last two years. When I was in college we learned theory of…

Mark Smith

The debt matters to me because I understand how interest works; it costs more and more to pay for what we bought so easily yesterday. I also understand the crushing depressive effects of debt; all of the foregone opportunities.

Clara Arndt

I think we can get some increases in revenue by letting the Bush tax cuts expire on all those that make $1,000,000 or more in all forms of income. That should take the squeeze off most small businesses. I think…

Vinson Burch

FISCAL CLIFF? An illusory term created by congress to avoid taking responsibility. Now, it is on the verge of backfiring in so many ways that it is unimaginable.

Edgar Tomblin

I am a senior in high school and am currently enrolled in a Global Diplomacy course. It has been an eye-opening experience to the problems that this country faces.

Jo Lewis

In an eight-year period, we went from a 6 trillion dollar projected surplus to a 6 trillion dolllars in debt. I am for dealing with this debt now, but not in panic mode. Panic leads to poor decisions with generally…

Robert Plumley

Extreme partisanship is keeping us from returning to a sane approach.

Mark Walker

Wealth accumulation is not a recipe for a healthy economy. Blind greedy shareholders and officers don't look at the big picture being fixated on their bottom line.

Ed Guffren

We are the cause of the debt. Our inability to stay within our political means, regardless of party, will bring calamity on the heads of our children and their children.

Stephen Shiell

I fear that if the deficit increases much more, it'll impact every department in government, from defense to education, from foreign aid to our domestic safety social nets.

Brandon F

It is time to put aside ideology and partisanship in favor of cooperation and compromise. The people demand action.

Peter Rees

Set the example congress. Read one of the hundreds of books on healthy personal or corporate finance. Follow the common of methodologies detailed in said publications.

Zia Karim

We must fix this overspending and raising of the national debt ceiling because our children and grandchildren deserve their slice of the "American Dream!"

Karen Allen Perez

There are few issues as important or have such obvious solutions. The Simpson-Bowles framework is the way forward.

Steve Kreider

Throughout our nations history, we have been confronted with great projects and policies that were needed, and cost a lot. From constructiing our government buildings, so many great projects were finished, and programs enacted, that furthered our interest

Lyle Freund

As the grandfather of six, I believe we have a moral obligation to leave them a world that is better than the one we live in. Instead of that, we are leaving it in a mess.

Kenneth Slaughter

With debt projections holding true through 2050, they’ll be working to merely make the minimum payments on the debt of a country that couldn’t put aside the immediate wants for the long-term needs.

Jon Lee

We are now in company with Spain, Portugal, and Greece. Our debt exceeds our total GDP. We are borrowing 40 cents for every dollar spent. The fiscal cliff is is getting closer.

Erik Valset

I believe that leadership from both parties need to come together and have a solution in action immediately.

Dipak Patel

The awful debt is by far attributed to the almost 60% of our discretionary tax $$ going to military expenditures in one form or other.

Gerard M Johnson

Because our Nation, our People, our Prosperity, and our Founding Principles should Matter to Politicians. Fixing the debt matters to my family because, without the debt being fixed, we may not be able to find the jobs needed to continue…

Deonet Wolfe

Why fixing the debt is important: I would love to see our young people grow up with the same opportunity I had when growing up.

Doris Shields

If the US wants to remain as the leader of the world economy, we need to fix the national debt. At least, we need to start working on it by discussing and choosing the best way to fix the national…

Herminio Flores, Ph. D.

Te debt will not fix itself nor will it go away. Real solutions need to happen NOW. The debt will only get bigger until we act on it right away.

David Schatz

If our debt continues our country will collapse and end up being owned by china. This obviously will not work for anyone here. This is the main reason for fixing the debt. There are countless other reasons which are too…

Jim Gayden

The debt crisis affects ALL of our futures. No matter who any of us voted for, ALL of us have a responsibility to fix it. I am sick of politicians pitting us against one another with this "class warfare" nonsense.

Minnie Allen

It's about time.

Christine Jeffords

There's more than one way to fix our fiscal problems, and I'm open to all ideas. Let's get get something going! Hey politicians- Get Out of Constant Campaign mode and do the right thing!

Joe Pirosch

The debt matters to me for several reasons: 1) for more jobs, 2) for my children and grandchildren, 3) for my retirement , 4) for our military, veterans, and defense.

Barbara Brightwell

Debt matters to me because with the recent financial crisis caused by lack of awareness and predatory lending practices, I do not believe that the interest generated from my debt will be used in the best possible way for the…

Kirsten Bunner

At over $16 trillion, it's now more than our annual GDP - we couldn't pay it off if we were slaves to China for a year! And the interest payments are over $200 billion a year

Preston Law

Oh come on, do we really have to have some big dicussion to figure out that a huge national debt is destructive and divisive, especially long term?

Van Vandivier

Our government needs to reduce the debt for the country to have money to put into real programs that will stimulate job growth and in turn stimulate the economy, with the jobloss at the rate it is now, the economy…

Michael Ellis

The debt we have, and our entitlement obligations, are already unpayable. We need to set the lofty goal of stopping additions to the debt, as a first step. Then we need to reduce the debt, an even more lofty goal.

John Metcalf

Balancing the debt, keep jobs and businesses in the US. Stop borrowing money from foreign countries, save social security and pay back that loan, and affordable health care. Use our own resources for energy and oil.

Jim Kress