Controlling our country’s spiraling debt by creating jobs and turning around our economy must be the top priority of the next Congress. Our national debt has increased by a whopping 50% in just four years. At $16,000,000,000,000.00 this works out to over $50,000 for every American – including our children. We are headed in the wrong direction. I don’t want our nation to travel down the same treacherous fiscal path as Greece, Spain and Italy. As bad as unemployment is here in the US, those nations have seen their unemployment rates sky rocket, social security cut, schools close and hope disappear because their governments failed to timely control their debt and spending. It isn’t too late for us to restore a sense of fiscal responsibility and turn around our economy with a balanced budget amendment, a line item veto and a reduction in the size of the Federal bureaucracy.