Mitch McConnell’s proposal to give away congress’s authority to raise the debt limit to the President is childish, and at a minimum borderline unconstitutional if not outright so. The founding fathers setup a divided federal government to enforce checks and balances and to slow down the process by which the government gets things done. They feared unilateral power in one branch of government. One branch of government cannot and should not delegate away their power to another branch – it is blatantly un-American according to the constitution.

The federal budget is loaded with wasteful spending. Anyone who denies this reality is simply not serious or honest. Just like every American family that has to sit down at the table and figure out where their money is going and cancel the Xbox Live subscription, or the Netflix subscription, or sell the ATVs in order to pay for the mortgage and purchase groceries when the paycheck simply doesn’t cover everything, our elected officials should be serious about doing the same. Where are the grownups willing to go through the budget and cut? Who is willing to reform or disband programs that cannot continue without jeopardizing our solvency? Yes, some people will be impacted negatively but that is the price we have to pay to get healthy again.

When it was discovered that my new born daughter was sick in a way that threatened her life and it would required a bone marrow biopsy, a liver biopsy, countless pin pricks to take blood samples, and ultimately chemotherapy to get her well we didn’t hesitate. It took 9 months of struggle but now at age 6 she has been healthy and a light in our life for over 5 years.

America is ours to lose. If we don’t demand our politicians act like adults then as the country gets sicker we have no one to blame but ourselves. Toss out the professional politicians who are blinded by their re-election fund raising and replace them with normal Americans that know how to do the hard work of fixing real problems.