The American Fiscal Responsibility Petition reads ...
1. Please account for the interests of future generations by being fiscally responsible today.
2. Please recognize that our current level of deficit spending is unsustainable.
3. Please realize that our current reliance on borrowing from foreigners is both dangerous and a departure from our history.
4. Please view our economic future in realistic terms and come to grips with demographic trends that portend danger.
5. Please reflect a healthy balance of America’s economic priorities in federal budgetary outlays.
6. Please do not try to sugar coat our economic situation and use realistic assumptions in fiscal projections.
7. Please honestly seek to restrain the influence of special interests and lobbyists.
8. Please recognize the American capacity for courageous action rather than resorting to accounting gimmicks or wishful thinking.
9. Please use debt wisely to build the infrastructure needed to support future economic activity.
10. Please place the good of the country above your own desire to be re-elected.
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