Join PGPF's Call for Leadership
September 5, 2008
PGPF is publishing a two-page letter in Sunday's New York Times calling for fiscal leadership from the presidential candidates, and for willingness among the American people to not punish the candidates for being honest about our nation's financial condition. A bipartisan group of prominent Americans - young, old, and somewhere in between - have signed the letter, and PGPF invites you to sign it, too.
The letter asks the candidates to, first, "engage Americans in an open and honest discussion about our $53 trillion financial hole and make addressing it a top priority if elected." Fifty-three trillion dollars is the sum of the government's current liabilities and unfunded entitlement promises. It translates to $455,000 per household.
And second, the letter asks the candidates to commit to create during their first year in office a bipartisan "fiscal responsibility commission" to recommend meaningful reforms to the government's budget processes and entitlement, health care, and tax systems - recommendations that will receive an up-or-down vote in Congress.
Americans have always risen to great challenges and prevailed. We can do it again - but we need leaders and lawmakers with the courage to make tough choices, and we the people must press those who seek to represent us for real results, not more pandering rhetoric. Please sign the letter today.
