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The Circular Financial Firing Squad Encore!

2011-08-06T14:04:05Z

I wrote the following and posted it on this blog in January of this year:

“In February of 2010 the circular financial firing squad known as congress approved a $1.9 trillion increase in federal credit card spending. This raised the federal debt spending limit from an already astronomically high $12.4 trillion to a new galactic high of $14.3 trillion. Guess what? In just over a year they have exceeded the new federal credit card limit and will have to vote to raise it again. Think about it. Nearly two trillion dollars of new federal debt strapped like a financial suicide time bomb on to each and every one of our kids and grandkids!

For some historical prospective on the financial insanity of congress consider the following facts: In January of 2000 the national credit card spending limit was $5.9 trillion; in January 2005 it was $8.1 trillion; in January of 2010 it was 12.4 trillion; and now it has exceeded $14 trillion.

Wake up America! Let congress know in no uncertain terms that the only acceptable answer to raising the federal debt ceiling is “NO”! “

Congress gave us the $2.4 trillion finger this past week, raising the new debt limit to $16.8 trillion and continuing their headlong rush to economic Armageddon.

Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev made an historic speech at the United Nations at the height of the Cold War in which he said to the United States, “We will bury you!” The United States Congress has demonstrated by their gutless and unprincipled actions in the debt limit debate that they intend to economically “bury” all of our children and grandchildren.

Atlas Shrugged: The Most Dangerous Movie in America!

2011-03-29T14:21:00Z

Movie Trailer

The movie Atlas Shrugged is based on the landmark book by the same name written by author, philosopher and “radical capitalist” Ayn Rand more than 50 years ago. Rand’s moral economic message in Atlas is still as fresh, vibrant and dangerous to today’s out-of-control congressional squanderers as it was to their predecessors in 1957. Dangerous because if Rand’s philosophical ideas are adopted by today’s Main Street Americans it will destroy the rotting corpse of congressional institutional corruption that has brought free-market capitalism and the American Dream to its knees.

The key moral question raised by Rand in Atlas is simple to verbalize but not amenable to the shallow sound-bite analysis so prevalent in our Twitter-FaceBook culture. It is a question that goes to the heart of why the United States of America is teetering on the brink of a financial Armageddon that will economically enslave our children and grandchildren for generations to come.

What is the question? It is this: “Do some men and women have the moral economic right to make sacrificial animals out of other men and women?” Putting the question another way in which it more specifically addresses the pending economic disaster of our generation would be: “Do some men and women in US society (whether they are a majority or a minority of the people) have the moral right to take, at the point of a gun, that which other men and women have produced or earned and give it to someone else?"

Since the United States of America was founded “of, by and for” the people of our great country, it is fitting that it is the people that must determine the answer to this moral question. Atlas Shrugged gives one answer. The people of the United States, including you, will ultimately have to give their answer.

You will get the most out of the movie and Rand’s moral economic themes if you read the following books in order: The Virtue of Selfishness, Capitalism the Unknown Ideal, and, Atlas Shrugged. Why those books in that order?—because the first two books preview most of the philosophical themes expressed by the characters and events in Atlas.

One last note on reading Rand for those born to the Twitter-FaceBook generation: Rand is not a quick read. To properly absorb her philosophy, whether you choose to agree with her or not, requires some thoughtful consideration on your part. I found that reading a page or two of Rand’s books and then cogitating a minute, sometimes an hour, on what I just read was my personal key for unlocking Rand’s philosophical logic. I discovered that she challenged and inspired me to consider and reevaluate my own philosophical principles and world view. My hope is that she, her great book, and the movie will similarly inspire you.

The Unvarnished Truth

2011-03-03T14:44:00Z

Lovers of economic liberty should not allow themselves to be taken in by the congressional dog and pony show surrounding the current 2011 budget. The proposed $61 billion in budget cuts by the U.S House of Representatives may sound like a lot of money to most Main Street Americans but the truth is that $61 billion is equivalent to one grain of all the sand on Florida’s beaches.

Here is the harsh reality of the economic numbers:

1. One third ($1.5 trillion) of the 2011 budget is borrowed money. (2011 budget year runs from October 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011)

2. Assuming that Congress can cut $61 billion per year out of successive year’s budgets it will take TWENTY-FIVE years to pay off the $1.5 trillion of debt accrued just this year! ($61B X 25YRS = $1.5 trillion)

3. All of the $61 billion of proposed spending cuts comes from either the national defense part of the budget pie or the discretionary spending part of the budget pie. The TOTAL national defense piece of the budget pie is $738 billion (approximately 20% of the overall budget) and the TOTAL discretionary spending part of the pie is $540 billion (approximately 15% of the overall budget). Even if Congress eliminated all national defense and discretionary spending (a total of $1.3 trillion) from the federal budget the US would have to borrow $300 billion to make ends meet this year.

4. The national debt of the US is currently $14 trillion. The entire value of all goods and services (GDP) produced in the US economy is only $14 trillion. Federal government accountants estimate that Congress will borrow one trillion dollars per year to fully fund the budgets for each of the next 10 years. All of this economically suicidal borrowing means that by 2021 the national debt will almost double to $24 trillion.

5. If by some miracle the Congress were to balance the budget this year and begin paying down the current $14 trillion national debt at a rate of $61 billion per year (excluding interest payments on the debt) it would take 229 YEARS to pay off the debt!

Wake up America! Congress is demonstrating by their actions that they have no serious intent to balance the federal budget and begin paying down the national debt. Every dollar they borrow is another squandering nail in the debt coffin they are constructing for your kids and grandkids.

Deficit Reduction!!! Really???

2011-01-26T15:32:00Z

Our national financial house is on fire and we still have politicians and media pundits talking about “deficit reduction” instead of focusing on cutting real government spending. Wake up America! Deficit reduction is not the same thing as cutting spending. The President, Senate and House of Representatives spent $1.3 trillion more than the nation’s tax collectors brought in last year. This is money they borrowed or printed out of thin air. To balance the 2011 national budget they would have to cut (not reduce) spending by the same amount--$1.3 trillion.

The current national debt excluding the $116 TRILLION unfunded mandates for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is $14 TRILLION. The Congressional Budget office conservatively estimates that if we do not make dramatic real cuts to federal spending our national debt will grow at a rate of one trillion dollars per year for the next ten years. This means that in 2021 our debt will be $24 TRILLION. This debt will eventually have to be paid by our kids and grandkids.

The President, in his state of the union address, revealed a plan to reduce the deficit by $40 billion each year for the next ten years. The new leadership in the House of Representatives is proposing to reduce the deficit by $100 million this year to show how “serious” they are about getting government spending under control. It does not take a Harvard PHD in math or economics to recognize that these ludicrous, politically motivated proposals do nothing to ultimately save our country from financial ruin. For even if Congress and the President were to “reduce the deficit” by $300 billion per year the national bank account would still be overdrawn by $7 TRILLION in ten years.

Those lawmakers who propose “reducing the deficit” are equivalent to fire fighters pouring thimbles of water on a raging national financial inferno in hopes of keeping their political asses in power by not making necessary and critical CUTS TO NATIONAL SPENDING.

Main Street Americans need to make it clear in no uncertain terms that they demand their elected representatives CUT spending not “reduce the deficit” for the sake of our kids and grandkids.

Pitiful $2.5 Trillion Fraud by House FCINO's

2011-01-22T17:29:00Z

The ludicrous proposal by 165 FCINO (Financially Conservative In Name Only) House members to reduce federal spending by $2.5 trillion over the next ten years is a pitiful attempt to appease mid-term election voters. With government credit card spending (borrowed or printed) conservatively forecast to be $10 trillion over the next ten years the $2.5 trillion in proposed spending cuts over the same period mean that the national debt will only grow (try not to laugh) to $22 trillion instead of $24 trillion. To illustrate what a bold faced fraud this proposal is consider the following example from the real world on Main Street America where people actually have to balance their check books and pay their credit card bills every month: Joe Mainstreet has a credit card with a $5,000 charge limit on it. Joe goes on a credit card spending spree and at the end of the year he has racked up $100,000 in credit card debt. When contacted by the credit card company and threatened with prosecution for credit card fraud he promises to cut his $100,000 yearly credit card spending by $10,000 per year over the next ten years. Joe will thus cut his credit card spending by $100,000 while racking up $900,000 of additional debt ($1,000,000 - $100,000 = $900,000). Wake up America! Demand that the suicidal congressional squandering of your kids and grandkids financial future stop. Demand that your elected representatives balance the federal budget now!

The Circular Financial Firing Squad

2011-01-22T17:23:00Z

In February of 2010 the circular financial firing squad known as congress approved a $1.9 trillion increase in federal credit card spending. This raised the federal debt spending limit from an already astronomically high $12.4 trillion to a new galactic high of $14.3 trillion. Guess what? In just over a year they have exceeded the new federal credit card spending limit and will have to vote to raise it again. Think about it. Nearly two trillion dollars of new federal debt strapped like a financial suicide time bomb on to each and every one of our kids and grandkids!

Wake up America! Let congress know in no uncertain terms that the only acceptable answer to raising the federal debt ceiling is “NO”!

Main Street on the Eve of (Financial) Destruction

2010-02-02T15:28:00Z

Congressional hogs continue the suicidal squandering of America’s financial future. The US Senate voted to raise the 12.3 TRILLION dollar statutory federal debt spending limit to a record 14.2 TRILLION dollars. This 1.9 TRILLION dollar spending limit increase is also another record.

As delineated in this blog on numerous occasions, the statutory debt spending limit is nothing more than a gigantic unlimited national credit card that congress authorizes to pay for government stuff (social programs, wars, earmarks, etc.) on CREDIT. When Congressional squanderers run out of the TRILLIONS of dollars that taxpayers pay on April 15^theach year they use the national credit card to charge the rest of the national budget bills.

For some perspective on the immoral, out-of-control financial destruction being wrought by the most culturally corrupt Congress since the founders consider the following facts: in January of 2000 the national credit card spending limit was 5.9 TRILLION dollars; in January of 2005 it was 8.1 TRILLION dollars; in January of 2010 it has been increased yet again to 14. 2 TRILLION dollars.

Now for the bad news: 1.3 TRILLION dollars (approximately one-third) of the proposed 2011 national budget of 3.8 TRILLION dollars will have to be charged on the national credit card because Congress does not have the tax income to pay for it. If you add in the expected 1.5 TRILLION dollarsof 2010 national credit card charges it means that Congress will exceed the newly approved 14.2 TRILLION dollar limit before the end of 2011.

Now for the really bad news: the Congressional Budget Office projects that national credit card charges between 2010 and 2019 will total 9.1TRILLION dollars. Congress is leading America down the path to financial Armageddon.

The squandering Congress has no plan to cut spending or to begin paying down the nation’s accumulated credit card debt. In fact, they can barely make the interest only payments on the national credit card.

Without wholesale intervention by Main Street voters, the utter destruction of the US economy and the financial future of our kids and grandkids is now inevitable.

Any member of Congress who voted to increase the statutory debt limit without a plan to cut national spending and begin paying down the national credit card debt needs to be thrown out of office.

Any member of Congress who votes for the 3.8 TRILLION dollar 2011 budget without a plan to cut national spending and begin paying down the national credit card debt needs to be thrown out of office.

Wake up America! Time is short. We are on the brink of financial destruction! You have one last chance to stop this Congressional madness by peaceful means by showing up at your polling place in 2010 and 2012. If you miss this opportunity there will not be another. Live free or die!

Health Care: How to Buy the Necessary Votes!

2009-12-21T14:40:00Z

Throw Them All Out America does not normally comment on Congressional legislation before final passage, however, the level of institutional and cultural corruption displayed in achieving the necessary votes to advance the Senate and House versions of the Health Care Bill are the exception that makes the rule.

Here is a short list of just some of the immoral deals made with taxpayer money to “secure” the needed votes not to pass but to merely move the Health Care Bill along:

· Louisiana got $300 million for their vote

· California got $300 million for their vote

· Nebraska got $100 million

· Vermont & Massachusetts got one billion over 10 years

· Connecticut got $100 million

· Protections for any cuts to Medicare Advantage beneficiaries in Pennsylvania, New York and Florida at a time when the program is facing nationwide cuts

· There are eight other states receiving similar benefits for their votes

Read the complete story on www.MichelleMalkin.com .

What makes it morally right for a corrupt Congress to take taxpayer money from Main Street American’s in 43 other states and pour it into the 17 states listed above to buy votes for a health care plan Main Street Americans reject by a two-to-one margin? This is classic collectivist redistribution by the most institutionally corrupt and financially irresponsible federal legislature our country has ever seen.

If Main Street America is to survive this collectivist-progressive-statist nightmare it is imperative that Main Streeters take action to throw every incumbent congressman out of office in 2010. Throw them all out America!

The Financial Insanity Continues!

2009-12-12T15:00:00Z

In August of this year (2009) U.S. Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner asked congress to raise the 11.7 TRILLION dollar statutory federal debt spending limit to 12.1 TRILLION dollars. The congressional hogs complied. Four months later, as we approach January of 2010, congress is set to increase the statutory debt spending limit by nearly two TRILLION dollars to 14 TRILLION dollars. The statutory debt spending limit is nothing more than a giant unlimited credit card that congress authorizes to pay for government stuff (social programs, wars, earmarks, etc) on credit. When congress runs out of the TRILLIONs of dollars that taxpayers pay on April 15^th each year they just use the federal credit card to pay for all the government stuff not already paid for. Unlike Main Street American’s credit cards, the federal credit card has never had to worry about a spending limit because they (congress) can vote to increase the limit whenever they run out of April 15^th taxpayer money.

For some perspective on the continued suicidal Congressional squandering of America’s financial future consider the following facts: In January of 2000 the national credit card spending limit was 5.9 TRILLION dollars; in January of 2005 it was 8.1 TRILLION dollars; in January of 2009 it was 11.3 TRILLION dollars; and, in January of 2010 it will most likely be 14 TRILLION dollars.

This generation of Main Street Americans is witnessing the premeditated, felony murder of our capitalist free market economy at the hands of collectivist political sociopaths from both sides of the political aisle. This is a 911 call to everyone who believes in financial responsibility, accountability and the American way of life. At the current rate of unsustainable federal debt accumulation we are less than one generation away from a financial and social Armageddon.

Wake up America! You still have one last chance to stop this madness with peaceful means by showing up at your polling place in 2010 and 2012 and throwing every single incumbent, regardless of party, out of office. If you miss this opportunity there will not be another. Live free or die!

Christmas Congressional Hogs Pork-up 1.1 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill

2009-12-12T14:54:00Z

Merry Christmas Main Street Americans! Bi-partisan congressional hogs have stuffed five thousand earmarks worth four billion dollars into a 1.1 TRILLION dollar omnibus spending bill just passed by the House and set to be voted on by the Senate today, December 12^th. While millions of American’s are unemployed and just trying to survive the holidays, Congress continues the suicidal spending spree that will eventually bankrupt the United States of America. They are digging a mass financial grave that will be occupied by the bodies of our debtor children, grandchildren and generations yet to come. Stop this corrupt, immoral madness! The righteous anger of every Main Street American who believes in financial responsibility and accountability must be unleashed at the polls in 2010 and 2012. The only morally proper punishment for this unrestricted greed, arrogance and corruption is a complete congressional house cleaning. Every congressional incumbent, regardless of party, needs to be voted out of office! The choice for Main Street voters is straightforward: take political action now or suffer the complete destruction of the American way of life for your kids and grandkids.

So why don't we have health care reform?

2009-09-01T17:45:00Z

This video is not an advertisement for health care reform, nor is it an endorsement of either major political party, the Congressman featured in it, or Congress. It is, in fact, a teaching moment for all Main Street voters who wonder why the Constitution is being shredded on a daily basis and why the full-out assault on capitalism and what is left of our not so free market continues unabated and unopposed. One of the questions that should be asked by Main Streeters who love liberty and a free market is why the hell should the federal government be involved in the doctor-patient relationship or health care issurance at all?
These are the same arrogant blowhards who legislated and promoted the financial environment that ended in the Great Financial Meltdown of 2008 and did nothing to stop it from happening. These are the same economic nitwits who approved trillions of bailout dollars for Wall Street and Big Three auto companies in direct opposition to the wishes of their constituents. Now these same anti-capitalist statists want to" fix" health care and subjugate another one-sixth of our shriking private sector economy to more big government ? I don't think so. They should not be allowed within a trillon light years of health care. As you watch and listen to the video think seriously about this: whether you get Democrat or some"bipartisan" DemoPublican version of health care it all boils down to the same result: less liberty for you, your kids and grandkids, more power, more tyrannny by the federal government. Throw them all out, elect people willing to cut federal spending by fifty percent and start paying down the 53 trillion dollars of public debt. That would be something every Main Street American could live with!

US Debt Clock.Org: Must See!

2009-08-25T12:59:00Z

Every Main Street American who loves their country, believes in the benefits of what is left of the free-enterprise system and is horrified at the suicidal Congressional spending spree that is bankrupting current as well as unborn generations of Americans needs to visit USDebtClock.Org website.

Pay special attention, not only to the current national debt of nearly twelve trillion dollars, but to the unfunded liabilities debt of one hundred and five trillion dollars located in the section at the bottom of the web page. Unfunded liabilities (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Prescription Drugs) are not reported as part of the twelve trillion national debt dollars. This means that the actual indebtedness of our country and by extrapolation every man, woman and child currently alive as well as generations of unborn Americans is well over one hundred trillion dollars! To put this astronomical sum in perspective it takes a thousand millions to make a billion and a thousand billions to make a trillion. If Congress were to decide tomorrow to take ten percent of the 3.6 trillion dollar federal budget (360 billion dollars) and begin paying off the total national debt it would take nearly 300 years to do it!

Main Streeters can no longer ignore, deny or excuse the immoral, all-out, political-economic destruction of America. Every single Congressional incumbent needs to be voted out of office in the 2010 mid-term elections and the 2012 presidential election. America is less than one generation away from complete economic and political collapse.

National Credit Card Spending Limit Increase on Tap for Congressional Hogs

2009-08-12T19:59:00Z

For the second time this year Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner is asking Congress to increase the nation’s statutory debt limit so that the federal government can continue borrowing above the 12 trillion dollar limit approved less than six months ago. Simply put, Congressional hogs have the power to increase the maximum limit on the national credit card anytime they want. With the National Debt at 11.7 trillion dollars as of August 7^th and an estimated 200 billion dollars per month being charged on the national credit card, it is likely that the 12 trillion dollar limit will be exceeded by October this year. For some perspective on the suicidal Congressional squandering of America’s financial future consider the following facts: In January of 2000 the national credit card spending limit was 5.9 trillion dollars; in January of 2005 it was 8.1 trillion dollars; in January of 2009 it was 11.3 trillion dollars; and, as of August 2009 was 11.7 trillion dollars. Wake up America! The United States Congress is economically enslaving you, your kids, grandkids and generations yet to be born. Every member of Congress who was on duty when the Great Financial Meltdown of 2008 occurred needs to be voted out of office in the 2010 mid-term election. Main Street American’s inalienable rights to life, liberty and property are being usurped by an out of control and institutionally corrupt Legislative Branch of federal government.

$550 million Hypocrite Jets

2009-08-08T16:12:00Z

After eviscerating executives of the big three auto companies for flying corporate jets in the wake of the auto industry bankruptcy and bailout, the House of Representatives hypocrites approved the purchase of eight new jets at a price tag of $550 million for the Congressional flying stable. Even though the Pentagon had only requested funds for two new planes, their input was overridden by the House Appropriations Committee porkers who, true to their institutionally corrupt earmarking DNA, added additional funds for six more planes. This example of Congressional arrogance, condescension and a blatant disregard for economic sanity are a sneering, slap in the face of Main Street Americans trying to make ends meet in the “worst economy since the Great Depression”. Wake up America! The Congress of the United States is squandering the financial futures of your kids and grandkids. There are less than 500 days until the 2010 mid-term Congressional elections. The only way to stop the suicidal spending and end the rampant institutional corruption of Congress is to vote every single incumbent out of office. The economic survival of our great country is at stake. Do not shirk your duty as a citizen, a voter, a parent, or a grandparent. Throw the bums out!

Mortgage Your Grandkids for a New Car

2009-08-08T16:08:00Z

The moral depravity of Congress reached a new low as the US Senate gleefully approved an additional two billion dollars to what is euphemistically called the “cash for clunkers program.” Boiled down to its’ despicable essence “cash for clunkers” involves Congress stealing billions of dollars from future generations to enable greedy, self-indulgent constituents to purchase new cars. Sure, they dressed the program up to make it look good by pointing out how much it was helping the now nationalized auto industry and how great it was to get all those old gas guzzlers and pollution generators off the road, but they are not fooling those of us who still love liberty and want the suicidal squandering of our nation’s financial future to stop. This program is about politicians buying votes with money the government doesn’t have and obligating those too young to have a political voice yet to pay for it.

Thank God for Peter Schiff

2009-08-01T01:44:00Z

Thank God for Peter Schiff! This Youtube video from 2006 (two years before the Great Financial Meltdown of 2008) shows just how arrogant, condecending, and utterly wrong the Congress, their so called economic "experts" , and the media were prior to the collapse. Main Street Americans need WAKE UP! The same people who got us into this mess are now the ones in charge of getting us out of it! Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. In 2010 we need to throw every incumbent Congressional fool we can out of office!

Ben Bernanke gets grilled on Federal Reserve lending to foreign central banks

2009-08-01T01:30:00Z

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has no answers about the Constitutional basis for sending half a trillion dollars to foreign central banks, including nine billion to New Zealand, as part of the global bailout of the world economy.

$4 Billion of taxpayer money squandered on Chrysler $8 billion more to go

2009-05-01T13:52:00Z

It’s official, one of the Big Three Auto companies that Congress said was “too big to fail” is now in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. After spending $4 billion to forestall the inevitable, tax payers will now get to foot the bill for Chrysler’s restructuring to the tune of another $8 billion… and counting! Buried in the financial headlines are the facts that the United Auto Workers union will now own 55% of Chrysler; the federal government 8%; Fiat (the Italian auto maker) 20%, and the Chrysler creditors (private sector investors) get the shaft with a 10% stake. Thank you Congress! Main Street American voters will have a chance to let Congress know what they think of this financial insanity in 2010. There should not be a single incumbent Congressman or woman left in office after the midterm elections.

Senator Changes Parties Over Stimulus Furor

2009-04-28T23:45:00Z

*It is the policy of the Throw Them All Out America blog not to identify individual congressional members in blog posts. The reason for this policy is that once the name calling begins and partisan hackles rise it takes the focus away from the bigger picture of an institutionally and culturally corrupt Congress that is bankrupt of new ideas and, as an institution, is engaged in the suicidal squandering of America’s financial future. The importance of this particular Senator has nothing to do with who he is or what his party affiliation was, or now is. What is important is the message that Main Street voters in his district are sending to him. Read on:

Pennsylvania Main Street voter anger over the Congressional Wall Street bailouts precipitated a change of political parties for one U.S. Senator today. Reason? Since voting for the stimulus, which he knew “would not be popular” he “traveled the state” [Pennsylvania] and talked to party leaders, office holders and supporters. After “carefully examining public opinion” it became clear to him that his vote on the stimulus had caused “a schism which make our differences irreconcilable.” Arrogant, condescending and narcissistic to a fault he went on to say in his prepared statement that, “I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged” by Main Street primary voters of his now old party!

Thank you Pennsylvania Main Street voters! Thank you for firing the first shot in a voter financial revolution to take back and restore an out of control Congress. Thank you for setting the example of what hopefully will be a tsunami of congressional incumbents with no place to call their political home come 2010. Every single Congressional incumbent who legislated and promoted the financial environment that led to the Great Financial Meltdown of 2008; who then voted to spend tax payer money to bail out Wall Street needs to be thrown out of office. As one of the great Tea Party signs on April 15^th 2009 said, “You can’t fix stupid, but you can vote them out!”

GM CEO Steps Down; Hypocrites get reelected

2009-03-30T20:29:00Z

The hypocritical political double-standard was again on full display as the CEO of GM, Richard Wagoner, Jr. was asked to step down “because the company needs a clean sheet” and a “change of leadership would be consistent with the clean-sheet approach.” So when do Main Street voters get the clean-sheet approach from Congress? Every Congressional incumbent who legislated and promoted the corrupt financial environment that led to the Great Financial Meltdown of 2008 or did nothing to stop or reverse the idiotic fiscal policy that every American deserves to own a home—even if they cannot afford to pay for it, needs to voluntarily step down effective immediately. Let’s start over in 2010 by cleaning out the incumbent dead wood in both the House and Senate.