the krumenacker | ford plan

while on our morning walk today, shana and i decided that we had some great ideas to help ease our country's debt crises. over time that is. nothing happens over night. i will share one with you today, here on my blog. but first, let's start with the most obvious courses of action. keep in mind that these are not shana and my ideas. they are just things we should have been doing from the get-go... the obvious...

• every us u.s. citizen should be paying their taxes. quite crying about it. if i can pay my taxes and my husband can pay his taxes and our families can pay their taxes then you should be able to as well.
  
• cut government spending.
  

that being said, i will move on with one of shana and my ideas. it is sort of unconventional. but we feel it could work. does anyone know how many people live in our country? a lot. something like 311,921,812. i found that number on the u.s. census bureau's website: http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html. now, don't you think that if each and every one of those u.s. citizens paid out a dollar or two, maybe even five or ten dollars, once a year to a fund / donation / collection / charity that was geared towards easing our country's debt that we could make some sort of progress? if every cent of that money went straight to paying off our debt, little by little... there's really nothing little about it... over 3 million times whatever donation(s) we give wouldn't exactly be little.

but for real, think about it... each year, over 3 million citizens each make at least 1 "donation" of $1–$10 towards the crises. we could get somewhere with this. especially if we all would pay our taxes and the government would cut their spending.

if you are interested, here are a few ways we could go about actually "collecting" these donations. all of which are quite conventional ways of collecting "donations":

• we could set up collections outside of grocery stores, like the red cross.
  
• we could have our local grocers ask each customer at the check-out if they, "would like to make a donation to help their countries crises." you know, they do it for other causes, why not our own debt? i'm just sayin'. it could work...
• we could do a telethon - shana and i were thinking we could be low budget and do it over our local broadcasting networks, like pbs... and have it catch on in other areas... sort of a viral effect

it would all be for the better of our country and ourselves as u.s. citizens.

..........jfk.........