It’s past time for the privileged class and super privileged class to patriotically ante up their $Trillions for America…while America is still here to serve as a repository for their massive accumulation of wealth of the past 28 years.

Some $40 Trillion lies in their coffers. So, it is in their self-interest to pay off the national debt of $12 Trillion (the latter being the root cause of the fiscal and financial mess that America is presently experiencing).

Beginning with the ratification of the 16th Amendment in February 1913, and on through the passage of the corresponding and resultant tax rate schedule in October 1913, America’s progressive income tax system was designed to do two things: 1) Allow the privileged class and super privileged class to pay America’s bills & 2) Allow the tax-free working class to move into the fledgling tax-free middle class…while consuming America into prosperity and simultaneously creating taxable net profits for the privileged class and super privileged class.

The preceding worked just fine, even with the intervening setbacks of two world wars and the Great Depression, Mr. & Mrs. Reader.

Then Ronald Reagan came along and America’s wealthy fell headlong into the black hole of temptation and greed. Without the democrats and republicans in congress, Mr. Reagan would never have succeeded in such colossal fiscal and financial foolishness (okay, stupidity).

For the past 28 years, privileged class members of congress and privileged class presidents have been borrowing America headlong into the parallel black hole of colossal debt.

It’s past time for the long overdue 270 degree turn from the present and dangerous starboard tack. Put another way, it will take at least 270 electoral votes to put the guy on the bridge and at the helm who has the strength of resolve and character to turn the ship of state from full astern to full ahead.

If the next captain of America’s ship of state is to be successful, the vast majority of the crew must support him. Therefore, the president, speaker of the house and senate majority leader must be of the same party as the president. Otherwise, America will end up dead in the water…or worse, i.e., sinking beneath the waves.

OK Jack