Back in the dark ages when I was in high school the nuns gave us a summer reading list that included John F. Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage."

Yesterday around 3 PM I expect that President Kennedy was rolling in his grave as the U.S. Government hits a milestone that should NEVER have been achieved -- $15 TRILLION of U.S. debt.

We are achieving this dubious milestone thanks to the Executive Branch's and the Legislative Branch's inability to STOP SPENDING money that we don't have!

(By the way, for those of you who have been taught American history in the past 25 years or so, you probably don't know that the "Executive" and "Legislative" Branches are the President and Congress.)

There will be no "profiles in courage" book or essay written when this bunch is through -- only the textbook example of complete and utter cowardice.

The so-called "Super Committee," or as I like to think of it, "Stupor Committee," can't even manage to come up with a $400 billion cut which is merely the amount that has been tacked on to the National Debt just since this committee was formed!

The real reason why we are now facing another possible downgrade of our financial system is because all the Cowardly "Lie-ons" in DC want to keep their own jobs even while a few million of us can't find one.

Putting self above country the politicians are willing to let the U.S. fail.  And BOTH parties are complicit in this.

We've seen the 99%; and we know who the 1% are; but WE ARE THE 53% -- the ones who are funding this catastrophe with our taxes. It's time WE raise our voices and DEMAND that this madness stop.

The promises that this government has made CANNOT be kept, unless we want to end up like Greece, Portugal, Italy and the like.  That's what refusal to face reality looks like and it is coming here if we continue to support these politicians.

We must stop saying "throw the bums out -- but not my bum."  Your "bum" politician is ALSO part of the problem.

I beg you to put your party affiliation aside and get a broom.  We MUST sweep them all out of office no matter how painful it will be.