THOUGHTS!

You know, when a person hasn't written for a long time it is really difficult to try to decide where to begin when going back at it. It sure isn't because of a lack of things to write about because with all that is going on around us I feel overwhelmed by it all.

No sense starting at the bottom and working up. No, I resumed my writing today by first penning a letter to our president and then to resuming my activities on this blog. In my letter to the president I tried to outline my formula for moving this nation out of this gutter of despair. I suggested that he do the following:

a) immediately work to ensure the enactment of HR 25 (Fairtax) and the accompanying repeal of the 16th amendment.

b) use the unspent portion of his stimulus to issue debit cards in the amount of $1,000 to every US citizen and ensure the cards could only be used for the purchase of new goods and services.

With the elimination of capital gains taxes, estate taxes, payroll taxes, etc. it goes without saying that business would have a very inviting atmosphere in which to accelerate. By restricting the use of the government issued debit cards to new goods and services people couldn't use the money to pay off existing bills but would use the money for new goods and services; thereby new tax revenue would be guaranteed immediately. Using the $1000 per person figure I noted above, that would yield about $70 billion in taxes as the populace began spending their money. Hey, it's better than building a tunnel for turtles, frogs and any other assortment of little wee-beasties. I believe there is at least half of the original stimulus money that is unspent. If my math is right that would be 300 million persons times $1000 for a grand total of about $300 billion. I also explained that the enactment of HR 25 would immediately initiate a prebate program that would help some families with their medical costs and would enable many to enroll in a catastrophic coverage insurance program further reducing mandates and financial burdens on America's already overtaxed citizens.

Since I'm throwing all those figures around, let me share one more with you. There is so much talk of the trillions of dollars of debt this nation has. Most people have no concept of what a trillion is. Congressman John Linder of Georgia once described a trillion dollars on the House floor in the following manner: (sorry, but I have to paraphrase here)

If you would have started a business on the day Jesus Christ was born and began losing a million dollars per day, each and every day, from that point in time until right now (2010), you would have to go another 700 plus years before reaching a trillion dollars. How's that for putting things into perspective??? Give you a better idea of what a trillion really is?? It did for me!

How time flies. It was a year ago this month that Rick Santelli first broadcast the notion that perhaps we should have a "tea party". Do you remember that? He was in Chicago. Who would have thought that the "tea party movement" would have grown to what it is so far. Talking about watching history in the making!!! I'm glad to have been involved from the onset and to have attended some of the events. At times I'm sure we all feel despair and hopelessness, but this provides us all the opportunity to be involved....and I strongly encourage it.

I'll tell you what.....if and when I get a response from my letter to the president I'll let you know here...just don't be holding your breath in the meantime.