The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we created a
breakdown of federal spending in simple terms. Let's put the 2011 federal budget into perspective:

 
*    U.S. income (Tax Receipts and Other Revenues)................................
     $ 2,170,000,000,000

*    Federal budget (Projected Spending).................................................
    $ 3,820,000,000,000

*    New debt (Difference between Income and Spending...This Year!!)........
    $ 1, 650,000,000,000

*    National debt (Amount Owed to People/Countries who Lend to us).......
    $14, 271,000,000,000

*    Recent budget cut (Spending that the politicians agreed to cut)...................$38,500,000,000

 

It helps to think about these numbers in terms that we can relate to. Let's remove _eight zeros_ from these numbers and pretend this is the
household budget for the fictitious Jones family.

*    Total annual income for the Jones family: $21,700

*    Amount of money the Jones family spent: $38,200 

*    Amount of new debt added to the credit card: $16,500 

*    Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710

*    Amount cut from the budget (or spending reduction): $385

So in effect last month Congress, or in this example the Jones family, who owe $142,710 on their credit card,  sat down at the kitchen table
and agreed to cut $385 from its annual budget. What family would cut $385 of spending in hopes of paying off the $142,000 balance while
adding $16,500 in additional debt each year?

You would think the Jones family (or our Congress) would recognize and address this situation, but in this example, the Jones Family does
not.... and neither does our Congress. Unfortunately, while the Jones Family's situation is fictitious, our country's is real and when you add
eight zeros, its really scary.

One part of the debt problem is that the voters typically _do not send people to Congress to save money_. They are sent there to bring home the
bacon to their own home state. To effect budget change, we need to change the job description and give Congress new marching orders.

It is awfully hard (but not impossible) to reverse course and tell the government to stop borrowing money from our children and spending it
now. If we don't  take serious action soon, our kids and Grandkids won't know the America that we grew up in.

WORKING CLASS HERO                       
As soon as your born they make you feel small, 
By giving you no time instead of it all, 
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all, 
A working class hero is something to be, 
A working class hero is something to be. 
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school, 
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool, 
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules, 
A working class hero is something to be, 
A working class hero is something to be. 
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years, 
Then they expect you to pick a career, 
When you can't really function you're so full of fear, 
A working class hero is something to be, 
A working class hero is something to be. 
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV, 
And you think you're so clever and classless and free, 
But you're still fucking peasents as far as I can see, 
A working class hero is something to be, 
A working class hero is something to be. 
There's room at the top they are telling you still, 
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill, 
If you want to be like the folks on the hill, 
A working class hero is something to be. 
A working class hero is something to be. 
If you want to be a hero well just follow me, 
If you want to be a hero well just follow me. 

I can no longer sit idle and allow my great country to self-destruct. My frustration over the last 3 years has come to a head. No longer can I take the polarization of the politics from the old rich farts in Washington. It has become an "us against them" approach and the only ones getting hurt is the vast majority of Americans paying virtually all the taxes to keep this country afloat.

Over the last 30 years, our Capitalist system by means of greed from the elitists stronghold has continuously outsourced our American jobs overseas and to Mexico to save labor cost. This Capitalist tactic to produce goods and services cheaper, even with terrible productivity has sorely hurt the middle-class American workers by millions of lost jobs. 

The United States has now slipped from being easily the top exporter in the world to currently third on that list as China and Germany has taken over. We're importing our own products for American companies at the expense of American workers, but to the benefit of Wall Street and the CEO's. Some Wall Street and large company's CEO's make more in an annual bonus than their middle managers make in a lifetime. The income distribution in the United States is just like it's politics, polarizing to the extremes.

I, as a middle-aged, educated middle manager shouldn't have to stack on major debt       ( that would take a decade to repay) or go bankrupt because of major illness in my household. The middle class is now working a much longer work week with lower wages and benefits. Oh...that is if you even lucky enough to find a decent paying  job. Where has my country gone? Well, I am mad, I am now mad as hell! 

Middle Class Ghostwriter will be dedicated to expose the policies and actions that the American elitist government does that negatively affects the majority of Americans, the middle-class. I am an Independent voter. I can't stand the line in the sand that tells me to be a Democrat or a Republican. I am a Centralist that believes there are good ideas that come from each party. This, "it's just us against them" bull_ _ _ _ is doing nothing but hurting the American citizens. Follow me on this continuous journey into organizing a new party, the  "I JUST WANT TO TAKE CARE OF MY FAMILY" party and exposing government actions that are destroying our working class livelihood.  I'm looking for a "New Deal" for the middle class. Together we can come up with new items that we can submit to our Representatives and hold them to them. Let's just think of ourselves as the counter-revolutionaries of the 1960's calling for change, but we'll do it the 21st century way by social media and technological pressure.