Well since we all seem to have to be in the sacrifice mood. I wonder how much our state and federal elected officals are going to sacrifice? I wonder if there are some Stats. on their legacy costs? I'll bet it would impact things in a positive way if they worked for a dollar until they got the economy turned around!!! Since most people don't have medical coverage, shouldn't they work at the same level as most people in the country? It sure seems to me that they are out of line with the average pay of main stream America! Oh, and another quick boost to the economy would be to reduce our property taxes in all 50 states to the level of the new value of our homes and the states that don't have property taxes just return it in some other way. Let's let the states bail out the federal Gov. a bit for a change. We need to start throwing this back in their faces as there seem to be a lot of the pot calling the kettel black going on in D.C.