More than once in my lifetime, I've been to someone's house, and seen a stack of unopened bills in their inbox. We're not talking fresh-from-the-mailbox bills either. We're talking yellowing-paper, crispy crinkly-old envelopes, sent two or three postal rate increases ago. The bills never got opened; the bills rarely get paid.

I've been deep in debt myself. I've been miserably buried in debt, wondering how the hell we'd ever climb out of the hole I'd dug for myself. It's depressing, demoralizing and it affects one's quality of life - every minute of every day. It took a lot of time, effort, prayer and determination to dig our way out, but we did it.

That's why I can't imagine how this government thinks it's OK to continue spending, spending, spending - running up the credit card, putting everything on the racks on layaway and dreaming up expensive new programs, rather than taking a step back to tackle priority one: our spiraling debt.

Last Friday afternoon (August 21st) - the time every Public Relations beginner knows to release bad news to the press - the Obama administration produced a revised budget:

"President Barack Obama admitted today that his estimate of the budget deficit was off a little, by a mere $2 trillion. According to the Obama administration, the U.S. will run a $9 trillion deficit over the next 10 years — $2 trillion more than it forecasted earlier this year.

Add that to the national debt which is already $11 trillion, and you get a $20 trillion debt by 2019. How much of that will be in the form of government bonds that will be issued to China? Who knows. But, for sure, our grandchildren will be paying for our mistakes."

Am I worried about my children, grandchildren and future generations? Sure, but I'm more concerned about our current generation's incredible lack of responsibility. Talking about future generations is a deflection from spending time and using brainpower to 1) stop the bleeding and 2) set a healthy direction for the future.

My concern is that the mountain of debt now accumulating with exponential force is one that will, in the near future and without hesitation, change our country's borders, if not dissolve them entirely. 

It's time our Lawmakers swivel their chairs, and face the mountain of unopened envelopes, and start answering that litany of voicemails. Time to stop the spending and cut up the credit cards. Time to start asking the United States citizens to tighten their belts and involve them in helping by innovating, creating new businesses and prosperity.

Those new businesses will generate new tax dollars. We shouldn't fear the future; but we need to embrace a smart plan of wealth-generating tactics rather than continue a repulsive, disgusting and highly unethical spending binge, while ignoring our responsibilities on a country, state, community, family and personal basis.

Let's remind Congress, the Senate and our Executive Branch that enough is enough. It's time to grab a shovel, and begin an honest dig out of this hell they created, and we've allowed.