"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." --Thomas Jefferson

The Democrat’s unwillingness to address the insane budget disaster in the Federal Government borders on criminal. If any large corporation ran its financing as irresponsible as the government, the government would be attempting to bring the officers up on charges, remember Enron?

Let look at some of the facts, in February the Federal Government posted the largest monthly deficit ever at $223 billion, yet the Democrats refuse to cut even $61 billion a YEAR!

We are now six months into the 2011 budget year but Congress has yet to pass a budget. Even when the Democrats were in control of both houses of congress and the White House, they refused to get the work done to pass a budget. This is the first time this has happened since the new budget rules went into effect in 1974. In the last 36 years, every Congress has managed to pass a budget before the end of the calendar year - - except the band of fools led by Reid and Pelosi.

With a projected budget of 3.8 trillion dollars, and a projected deficit of 1.4 trillion, that means the federal government has income to cover only 2/3rds of the spending, the rest is borrowed. But the Democrats refuse to cut less than 2% saying these cuts are, “draconian”! Think about this for a minute, the government spends 1.4 trillion dollars more than it takes in, everyone says that we must decrease spending, but the Democrats say cutting 61 billion dollars is far too much.

How in the heck do you close a 1.4 trillion dollar short fall if you can’t even cut $61 billion?

On Tuesday the President chided Republican Speaker of the House Boehner for holding up a budget deal for what the President refers to as “quibbling around the edges” of the budget. Well, if what the Republicans are asking for is such a small issue why are the Democrats willing to shut the Federal Government down over them? Come Friday our troops in combat will stop getting paid so the Democrats can be sure the National Endowment of the Arts can continue being funded. That is one of the critical services the Democrats say cannot be cut to help balance the budget.

While the clock ticks toward a Federal Government shut down, the Federal Government spends 5 million dollars a minute. The only way this will ever end is if we hold our elected officials responsible to balance the budget.

Mr. Jefferson could not be more correct.