Oil and gas prices have been dominating the headlines for the past six months, maybe more.  Quite frankly I am sick and tired of it.  Ok, I think the American people and our government understand that this is a problem.  Also, something needs to be done, but with the way congress works, in particular the Democrats, it could be another eight million years before any tangible legislation is put into law.  So, in light of this horrid situation I would like to turn to another economic issue, because it's obvious that nothing is happening with this one.

   This is an issue that many of the democrats and the left handed media have brought up on numerous occasions.  It's the issue of the national debt and everything that goes along with it.  Our debt is in the many of trillions and as we have heard from our predictable media, that's kind of bad.  I will give this to them, they are right, lots of debt is no good.  Where we differ though is in the solution to the problem(which is mostly always the case).  Democrats will lead you to believe that the only way to pay off our debt is to raise taxes.  This is obviously not true, and not only that, it's sort of a stupid idea.  Everyone knows that raising taxes is very closely related to losing re-elections, and most congressmen won't want that. Although some democrats will lead you to believe that raising taxes is good for their standing with the public (again very wrong and dumb).  Raising taxes doesn't solve the worst problem we have in relation to the debt.  The value of our currency is not great and to lower the debt its value has to go up.

   My solution would be much different from raising taxes and much easier on the American people.  This would never happen because congress is too counterproductive, stubborn, and proud to let it happen, but I believe the primary change that needs to be made is that the government has to do away with NAFTA.  Oh geez, I might get assassinated by a Clinton crony for even suggesting that, but hey I pride myself on good ideas, not really winning votes and charming obtuse women.  Sorry about that, that wasn't very classy, but you have to sneak cheap shots in sometimes.  If we get rid of NAFTA, it would in turn help to increase the value of the dollar.  How?  Well, without NAFTA it would be harder for us to continue buying things from overseas like we have been doing.  It would also increase production in the states, which would, in turn, allow us to sell more products here and overseas, thus increasing the value of our money.  Great idea huh.  Yeah not really, because it has its problems too.  Without NAFTA taxes and tariffs on foreign goods will increase.  Also, it will cost our businesses more money to increase production, thus products will be more expensive.  This is still better than raising taxes thought because it isn't such a direct hit to the people.  It's kind of like a sports franchise that isn't doing to well financially, if they raise ticket prices fans will get angry and maybe not come anymore.  The better idea is to leave ticket prices alone and increase concession prices.  If fans can afford a ticket price they'll find enough money to buy stuff and they always do when they are in the stadium.  So, don't take our money with taxes, simply let us do what we love to do, buy things and buy American.  Wow, this is a good idea, not only does it offer a solution, but it's very patriotic.  That is just packaged to sell to the American people.  I'm sorry my ego is going rampant right now, I must sign off.