As Americans we find ourselves together in a collective web. We weaved it ourselves and now we have to take out the scissors and cut it away. What is the web I speak of. It is our immense public and private debt.

In looking at the two general solutions provided by the dominant political parties of (1) provided by the Democratic Party of the government spending more in the short term to boost or stimulate the economy in an attempt to increase the revenue of the government to pay the debt and deficit down. (2) provided by the Republican party to decrease the tax burden of wealthy so as private citizens, they would stimulate the economy in attempt to increase the revenue of the government to pay the debt and deficit down.

The second part of the plans are to reduce spending with (1) the Democrats opting to end our wars and slash the Armed Forces, and (2) the Republicans opting to decrease or reduce welfare payments. These are over simplifications of the plans, both plans may work. But they both ignore the true engine that produces wealth that is in the manufacturing of products right here in America. The more stuff we as Americans make, the wealthier we will all be.

I know that my endorsement of a Presidential Candidate does not mean much, but I support Rick Santorum. His economic strategy is similar to his fellow Republicans with a blue collar twist of the government removing the obstacles that punish manufacturing. America needs to start making products again and follow the ideal of Henry Ford to make sure that the workers make enough money to buy the products they produce. The working middle-class is the group that the government should protect and help out the most. Not the wealthy, they can help themselves. What good can come from either Government or wealthy individuals spending their money unless that money stays here in America and not sent overseas, where our goods are produced. We need to spend our money in America on American products, so Americans can get that stimulus and not foreigners.

We need to turn on the light switch and highlight the American worker who produces and stop punishing them with burdensome regulations that drive their jobs overseas, and we need to get away from get rich quick schemes and all buckle up and get back to steadily earning and saving.

I also support Rick Santorum because he is the most pro-life candidate. Probably because of his family. He has had a child die and another with a major handicap. He understand the value of human life. America needs to value the life of every person. People are our best resource. Every person is created in the image of God. Nothing else can make that claim. Killing our babies (elective abortion) is like clear cutting a forest and not replanting it.

For America to get out of this tangled web of debt we need to start working at cutting away the strings that hold back businesses that make things by removing most of those regulations. America has a lot of resources (including oil) and we can make them into products to sell to the rest of the world. We have the best ideas for products. The best workers to make them. Let’s get busy cutting away those government rules and get out of this tangled web and start producing again, instead of just consuming.