A Simple Plan

It seems that one of America’s two major political parties is suffering the worst of all political maladies – they are being ignored. The politicians who run under the banner of this party are worrying because their cell phones are ringing less, they are not being included in those exciting caucuses where legislation they seldom read or understand is being discussed and formed and, most of all, they just aren’t on the A lists for parties and Sunday morning shows. Oh woe be unto them. What to do?

Well, TheFundamentals can help. And we don’t charge those exorbitant fees that political consultants charge. Here’s all you have to do:

1. Look left. There is a number representing the federal government’s debt that can be easily calculated into a per capita number for each voting American. Let’s make it simple because some of these folk are Ivy League school graduates. Let’s say the debt is $12 trillion; that’s $12,000,000,000,000.00. And, let’s say that we figure that 130,000,000 Americans will vote in the 2010 congressional elections. So, each voting American is on the hook for $90,000.00 of the US national debt. Wow! Holy Smokes! Even TheFundamentals didn’t believe it was that bad. Wait’ll you start publicizing that number.
2. So, in 2010 there will be 435 seats in the House of Representatives up for election, maybe one more for DC, and 36 Senate seats. Right now the ratio between the two parties in the House is 257/178. In the Senate the split is 60/40.
3. So here’s the deal. The only way the $90,000.00, and rapidly rising, debt is going to start to decline is one of the two parties is going to have to make a commitment to start paying it off. The one party with the bigger ratio numbers above is committed to making it go higher. They have already said it will at least double in the next ten years. The marker is down. $180,000.00 per voter by 2018. Vote for us and we will make sure that the $180,000.00 is a certainty.
4. Other guys, listen up. Do you think you could possibly put together a campaign on that simple fact? You may want to consider a bit of a different commitment. It involves the voter, particularly those voters who may think $90,000.00 is either just enough or already too much. So here’s the deal to offer those voters. Vote for us and if the results are as follows here is what we will do:
a. Get the ratio back in balance – House 217/218 and Senate 50/50 and we will stop the number from rising from its level at the time the new congress convenes.
b. Get the ratio to 211/224 and 50/50 and we will reduce the number by 1% per year for as long as we have that ratio.
c. Get the ratio to 178/257 and 40/60 and we will reduce the number by 3% per year for as long as we have that ratio.

For those of you who want your phones to start ringing again, this objective is not all that tough. Here’s what tough. You had the ratios in 4b above and you blew it. Can you ever get people to trust you again? Try it. Don’t screw it up this time!