From the National Debt Clock:
The estimated population of the United States is 304,815,165 so each citizen's share of this debt is $32,338.64.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $2.32 billion per day since September 28, 2007! Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House!

Added to that is a proposed initial bill to bailout the U.S. financial system. This measure, which involves the government acquiring or insuring as much as $700 billion of troubled mortgage-backed securities, is intended to reduce the level of uncertainty regarding these assets and restore confidence in the credit markets.

People in the United States are losing their homes because of higher property taxes.

We started paying on our home 20 years ago. Our home cost $24,500. Our house with little improve is now value at $200,000. We are paying more taxes on the home than they did in purchasing the home. Even a home that has little improvement made to it is taxed at a higher rate because the law states that market value determines that tax on the home. The market value of a home is determined by how much a house in the area is selling for. The land our house sits on went from $72,000 to $80,000 for .1 acre in King County Washington. The house value with no improvements to jumped from $180,000 to $200,000. Who do you know that gets a $28,000 raise per year? We are in our 50's. The good jobs we had that paid a living wage $20-$24 an hour are now outsourced jobs. We are working in the $10-$15 an hour range because there are too many people and not enough jobs. I don't know of anyone who gets a $28,000 raise per year. My husbands union got him a 3 cent raise for the next 3 years!  People are bailing out on their mortgages because of the taxes on the houses. Affordable housing is almost nonexistant in WA because people are now working service jobs instead of professional jobs.

The above bailout is not going to help the American public. Lowering their taxes so they can afford to live in a house might help them. As seniors we will not be able to afford the taxes on our house in our later years as the house prices keep going up and the wages we receive do not. The government doesn't realize all the hidden costs of owning a home. We are accessed a Homeowners Association cost, a higher utility bill cost because Homeowners Association had to put in water pipes ($40 for the next 30 years) and all our utility bills have taxes on top of that. We as U.S. citizens are taxed to death!

The U.S. has assets it can sell to help reduce the debt!

"Foreign investors now hold slightly less than 50% of the publicly held and publicly traded U.S. Treasury securities, 25% of corporate bonds, and about 12% of U.S. corporate stocks. The large foreign accumulation of U.S. securities has spurred some observers to argue that this foreign presence in U.S. financial markets increases the risk of a financial crisis, whether as a result of the uncoordinated actions of market participants or by a coordinated withdrawal from U.S. financial markets by foreign investors for economic or political reasons. Concerns are also growing that over the long run U.S. economic policies and the accompanying large deficit in its international trade accounts could have a negative impact on global economic developments, especially for the economically less developed countries."

What does this mean? It means that we are not only outsourcing our work to foreign countries leaving only service jobs for Americans. (Why should our children go to school to get degrees when they will have no way to pay for those degrees because their jobs are going overseas?)

Add to that we have money for bombs to destroy foreign industry and then money to repair the damage we've done on foreign soils but we don't have money to house U.S. citizens, people who used to have jobs and feel that their lives were of some value but are now homeless thanks to dwindling jobs and soaring costs! How is it that we do not have money to feed our U.S. Citizens but we have money to buy war toys! We can afford to chase homeless people around destroying their little encampments but we cannot afford to give them a hand up, some education, a place to stay until they can get on their feet. What is wrong with this picture? What is wrong is that these homeless people once had jobs and they paid their taxes. They do not deserve to be forgotten or trampled over.

The United States most valuable asset is the lands it holds. The United States owns over 3/4 of the land in the United States and is doing nothing with most of it. Land will go up in value so at least it had the forethought to save something of value that it could lease out or sell at a later date. The United States also owns copyrights and patents that it could lease out to foreign countries.

When people have no money they have to sell something because at a certain point no one is going to give them money if they cannot pay it back. In this case the U.S. government is purposing taking more money from the U.S. people and their children by going into the private markets and bailing them out.

The best thing the government could do at this point is to use what they have to get the U.S. out of debt... not to get us further into debt. We have homeless engineers in poverty walking the streets because they have no jobs....instead chasing these people about as if they were worthless why not retrain them and use their skills!

Our people are our riches. When we hurt one of our citizens we are hurting our society as a whole. When we treat one person as being worth less than the next person then we have to ask ourselves where do our principles lie as a society. I've seen so many companies profess an ethical standard but I have yet to see a good business who walks its talk.

Say NO to higher taxes! The U.S. government has assets that could be making U.S. citizens money. There are food commodities on government lands that could be used to feed the homeless. The U.S. government has been busy asking for more money... when in fact they should be thinking of ways of using what they already have to create more money. They have a whole homeless workforce out there that could be put to work. What a shame we have to burden our children with a lot of debt!