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Godspeed, America — our national debt crisis is serious

Sun City West reader: States should call for budget-balancing amendment, sue Congress

OPINION —  America’s debt crisis is a real threat and I’d like to thank Mr. Savage for his recent comments. After volunteering full-time over the last 13 years and publishing a book on this topic, I can assure you that America is rapidly approaching the cliff without a plan.

The speaker of the U.S. House recently publicly stated that Congress doesn’t have the political will to fix the debt problem and suggested the states would have to sue them.

The United States nearly collapsed in the 1780s due to approaching bankruptcy as the Constitution was conceived by the states using their 170-year-old tool, the convention.    

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