“When you find yourself in a deep hole, the first thing you do is stop digging.” That simple truth should be ringing through the halls of Washington right now. DC, we are in a deep hole, and it is long past time to stop digging.

Many informed citizens and our local representatives realize our country is in a debt hole, but very few of them understand how deep it is or the urgency to stop digging now before it is too late. There are many more, perhaps even a majority, who are not fully informed and do not even realize we are in a hole at all. That disconnect between awareness and action is at the heart of our fiscal crisis and helps explain why the problem continues to worsen despite growing attention.

Our enormous national debt is the symptom, not the disease, and the cure is sound economic policy rooted in discipline and restraint.

The scholars are preaching to the choir, and the choir is not singing to the congregation. Until we reach enough of the congregation, the voting public, to understand the problem, grasp the urgency to fix it, and demand change, we will not get Washington to stop digging. Public awareness must........

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