Dear Editor: Hold Our Public Officials and Ourselves Accountable for the Situation We Are In

Dear Editor,

When government outgrows the productivity of its people: According to a recent study released by Truth in Accounting, the end of 2024 brought the US government 153 trillion dollars of total liabilities. Your government currently holds claim to $966,000 of future productivity for every citizen in the United States. Measures to correct a growing burden will require some pain that few will escape. The million-dollar question remains: What will you be willing to sacrifice?

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson

Donald Trump and his dream team certainly have their work cut out for them. More than anything else, they will need the support of every American citizen to sacrifice. Simply put, public officials (who we have voted into office) have violated the parameters of our constitutional form of government. It's past time to hold our public officials and ourselves accountable for the situation we find ourselves in.

BOB WAGNER

Whitehall, Montana