Midknight Review - new and revised, offers the best solution to our debt in the history of this nation -- seriously.

Editor's notes: Before we offer our historic suggestion to the national debt, we remind you of the worst idea in the history of this country. Take time to read the summary statement of purpose from the Campaign for America's Future:

Worst Idea

The Campaign for America’s Future is the strategy center for the progressive movement. Our goal is to forge the enduring progressive majority needed to realize the America of shared prosperity and equal opportunity that our country was meant to be.

To attain our ultimate goal, we spearhead a compelling progressive agenda that addresses the kitchen-table issues working families face. We regularly convene and educate progressive thinkers, organizers and community activists so our voices will be coordinated, cogent and potent. And we incubate national campaigns on the critical issues that will define America for generations to come.

Americans have had it with tired conservative politics that divide us, an economy that squeezes us, a foreign policy that weakens us and a government that serves few of us.

But while conservatism may be exhausted, progressives are just getting started. The Campaign for America’s Future is driving our progressive movement and offering the new vision, bright ideas and bold leadership Americans rightly demand.

We are showing the way toward accessible education, affordable health care and secure retirements for all. Toward a clean energy future and away from Middle East occupation. Toward the representative, responsive and responsible government needed for all of us to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

We cannot let the conservative failure that brought us to this precarious moment tip America into another Gilded Age and leave the world at the mercy of unaccountable multinationals, oil-drenched autocrats and merchants of terrorism.

It’s our job to turn this precarious moment into a prosperous progressive era. Together, we can.

Robert L. Borosage
Roger Hickey
Co-Directors, Campaign for America’s Future

More editor notes: understand that the three prong concern for accessible education, affordable health care and secure retirements for all cannot be the product of a centralized government construct. Why? You mean that you do not know, after 17 months of legislation resulting in 6 trillion dollars in addition debt ? Understand that a full 50% of the American population does not pay any income tax, at all and the top 10% of our wage/income earners earn, on average, $92,000 per year and pay a collective 71% of all income taxes. In short, the greedy non-working class, those who refuse to pay their fair share of the income tax bill, cannot expect to receive the services listed above as a result of "redistributive wealth" because there is not enough money within the top collective 10% of this nation.

Best Idea

Here is a question not asked by any other blogger. It strikes me as being an excellent idea in spite of the fact that it is mine.

The question ? Why does the government not enlist the services of, say, the top 100 or 50 or 20 or whatever, investment concerns, whether individuals or corporations, to do nothing but "make profit" via investments for the Nation ? OF COURSE we would have to pay them -- but maybe not. Warren Buffet has suggested that the super-rich donate a billion dollars each. Forget that. Have Warren Buffet and his buds DONATE THEIR TIME to earn mega-bucks for the government - rather than having the Feds steal from them via a progressive income tax.

What do you think?