Kick The Can Is Just A Game.

       When I was a boy, there was a game called Kick The Can. It was sorta like an expansion of Hide And Seek. Surely you've heard of that game. Anyway, it's not at all like the Kick The Can game that Congress keeps playing. See, in the old game of Kick The Can, the point was to win and have fun doing it. But in the Congressional game of Kick The Can, nobody has fun and everybody loses.
       Everybody loses because every time they kick that can, the costs go up and the government, which means the taxpayers, which means you and me, the government piles up more debt and more deficits. What it means is that instead of starting to pay on the debt by paying a little more in taxes and getting a little less in government services, instead of that, the government just delays paying on the debt. But that doesn't mean that the interest on that debt stops growing or the debt itself . The interest and the debt keeps on growing.
       The only way to stop the interest and debt from continuing to grow is to reduce the debt and pay the interest too. That's when the interest payments start to decrease. Now whatever you do, don't tell your Congressman that. Just keep it as our little secret. After all, Congress is having so much fun thinking they're doing good and at the same time hoodwinking us, that it would be unkind to let them know that we're onto their little game.
       Well, anyway, we've only got a couple of choices. We can just let Congress keep on kicking that can down the road to their hearts content until they completely ruin the country. That, or we can begin to replace these screw-ups in Congress. That, or we can begin to scream and holler and write letters and demonstrate and demand that they quit trying to trick us into believing they're doing the right thing, and stop kicking the damned can down the road.
       Of course, if we do either the second or third choices, we run the risk of hurting our representatives' feelings. Now I know that you don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but remember, they're just Congressmen and Senators. It's not like they can't be replaced. In fact they should be replaced.