Our Kids Will Pay For It

-By Vince Johnson

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
The Speaker
U.S. House of Representatives
H-232 U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Madam Speaker:

This will convey the suggestion that you stand before a high school student body in the state of Oregon and explain how it is constitutional and ethical to borrow several trillion dollars from their future without their knowledge or consent. The phrase “without their knowledge” is defined as: “Without any serious effort to explain how this huge amount of debt will create a tax burden far greater than any previous generation in our nation’s history has ever faced.”

If you handle this suggestion effectively it could become a timely opportunity to rally the nation into a fresh new attitude of optimistic energy required to get America’s economy rolling again. This event could also become a very powerful and nationally visible rebuttal to the “T-Party” momentum.

Again, there are ethical considerations of highest order behind the ongoing decisions to borrow trillions from future generations without their knowledge or consent. Each of these generations are entitled to have a clear understanding of the ethics involved and it is reasonable to conclude that the best and most knowledgeable explanation should be presented by those who made these decisions in the first place.

I hope you will give this suggestion timely and serious consideration. The 2010 elections are coming up and many thousands of votes could be influenced by how you respond.

Sincerely,
G. R. Vince Johnson, Veteran WWII and Korea
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