I have always thought that Speaker Boehner, when it comes to negotiations, seems to become a wimp and usually caves being more concerned on how the electorate will view him and the republicans rather than saving the country from fiscal insanity.
Therefore, I would like to see all the 9/12 and Tea Party groups get together and send Rep. Boehner a 2x 4, 1 x 1 or other size board of approximately 2 to 3 feet with a note to support him on getting a backbone when negotiating with this president and democrats. We must cut spending immediately and not over 10 years as most proposals from both sides of the aisle seem to be proposing. As someone mentioned on television last week, if the democrats like the Clinton administration and the budgets that with the help of the republicans gave us balanced budgets, then we should implement those budgets today. That is not spending more than we take in as a government. Spending 3.6 Trillion a year with an income of 2.2 income a year is our problem. Taxing the rich will only give us an annual income increase of approximately 90 Billion a year. This leaves us slightly short of our spending deficit of $1.5 Trillion. So regardless of what type of package Congress puts forward, you can rest assured that by the end of Obama's 2nd term, we will have a debt of over $22 Trillion and bankruptcy. I firmly believe that this is exactly what this administration wants. We have a president that spent his first 20 years growing up outside this country being indoctrinated with anti- capitalism and anti-United States rhetoric and in the schools he attended here from those radical professors. And living here has not changed his opinion but only reinforced his socialist/Marxist thought process.
Just think, if we did send backboard support, the publicity this would get. Of course we know it would be negative from the lamestream media, but it would be publicity and show that the Tea Parties are not dead.
Cutting spending is the issue and not increasing revenue without immediate drastic cuts in spending.