Sir;... Why cast your eyes so far afield for an example of deficite spending???Look to our American South during our civil war...The rich would not see themselves taxed even to fight a war they started for their own benefit...The printing presses worked even if the people would not, so paper money became plentiful, so plentiful that a man from Maryland said the printing on it diminished its value...Sir; this is a commonwealth, just and Rome and Greece were commonwealths... The slaves of Rome drove the free farmers from their fields...It was this group of free citizens, displaced into Rome who made and unmade emperors, and they all had rights and all had to be fed.... But this is true of any society, that it must feed its members... Our small farmers have been driven from the land...They have been driven off by taxes, but also by middlemen, bankers, and illegal immigrants... If the big farmer hired cheap labor, only cheap labor could be afforded by any farmer...If the big farmer had a big tractor so did the little farmer need big...I have known many small farmers supporting their farms with a real job, but I have never met a small farmer supported by his farm... The work is too hard, made slavery by those very people who cry about paying to support all those they have driven from their farms...Does it matter if for higher profits our jobs are shipped to foreign shores??? It matters because the dwindling jobs and profits of this land must support always relatively more people...Here is what you need to do... Before you deprive people of their land, why not deprive them of their rights, their freedom, and their commonwealth... If a person must once surrender the capital of all their generations, make them slaves immediatly...Put them back on the land as serfs, and bind them to the land forever...That is what the Romans did... That and killing them off... Those who had luxury did not want to share with future generations, and those with poverty did not want to share poverty with their progeny, so the population of the country declined year after year until the place could not defend itself with its own people...You people, and your class use the word entitlements like a dirty insult...Entitlements are not undeserved...This is our land...If the government has seen fit to let this common property into private hands it must always be for a common good... This government runs a deficit because the government of the rich cannot manage the courage to tax those with the property and wealth...They can tax us all they want; but we cannot pay...Everytime the poor are taxed the gulf between rich and poor grows wider and deeper...Rome ruined itself because it would not tax the wealthy which might have given life to the whole society... The South would not tax their rich, and so hastened their ruin... If we will not take back this commonwealth, and make certain that it does a public good while in private hands, then we follow the failures of the past with folly... If our rich were to depart this shore for friendly climes, we would not starve, and we would not want for rich people...The ambitious always put themselves first, but we are fools to think we should not harness them to the cart of national purpose...Let them pay for the honor of being rich...Leave them some money, and give them the honor of supporting the commonwealth....Some people fight for this country and work for this country, and the rest should pay to avoid these fates... No one owns this country free and clear... Taxes are the dues we pay, or in the case of the rich, do not pay for the privilage of being here, and drawing our life from this place...Thanks...Sweeney