Uncle Sam's credit card is maxed out at the $16.4 trillion debt ceiling limit.

Trillion-dollar Barack Obama spent $5 trillion in four years, a record for a president of the United States. President Obama spent more in four years than all the 43 U.S. presidents before him.

Congress doesn't need to lift the debt ceiling limit for it is devaluing the U.S. dollar and U.S. bonds will crash. Congress needs to cut out the pork and programs that are wasteful.

Obama could try a sneak attack to use the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling limit without congressional approval.

Seize the moment, U.S. Congress, to cut the budget to save the economy from bankruptcy and bond default. Also, to stand on correct principles to save the nation from further lower credit ratings.

The three unwise men of the west: Obama, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will destroy this beloved U.S. with the weapon of mass financial destruction: the meanie greenie printing press U.S. dollar machine.

George Culley

Pinckneyville