Support a Balanced Budget Amendment

I am writing to you as a concerned citizen, taxpayer and voter.

The 2010 Federal Budget projects a deficit of over $1 trillion, an unsustainable level of spending and accumulation of debt. While it took the United States until the 1980s, over two hundred years, to accumulate $1 trillion dollars in debt, we are now adding that amount every year. Our children and grandchildren will not be able to pay the interest on this debt, much less the principle.

I urge you to take a stand and vote against deficit spending and against any proposed budget with a deficit. In addition I urge you to support and encourage amending the Constitution to require that the Federal Budget be balanced and not allow the incursion of debt, except in time of national emergency.

If a family or company were in the same debt and spending pattern as the United States, it would have no choice but bankruptcy. The time for fiscal responsibility is now, and we, the people, depend on our elected representatives to show leadership and make the hard, necessary decisions in these troubled times. The necessary decision now is to stop spending money that the United States does not have and never will.