A New Plan to Solve Our Economic Crisis

[AMoore]

I'll admit that the original writer got his math wrong in this tongue in cheek letter, but wasn't it a democrat who balanced the budget not too long ago.  Additionally, during his administration, welfare was reformed.

A real solution:

If we had congressional term limits: 

congress might vote to increase the retirement age to a number commensurate with health and life expectancy.

congress might be less concerned with pork for their constituents and do what is best for the U.S. (Senator Shelby from Alabama is an idiot)

congress would be more likely to be bipartisan since they would not fear backlash from their respective parties.