Ever since Barack Obama became president of the United States, the leaders of the Republican party have fervently proclaimed the mantra ‘America is broke’ and because of this, the nation needs to undertake austerity measures along the lines of reducing social welfare programs and placing limits on Social Security and Medicare outlays. The problem for the party is the nation is not ‘broke’ but rather has accrued a nice collection errors in the ledger or accounting disparities. When G.W. Bush came into office and saw the pot of dollars in the Social Security trust fund, his administration decided to borrowed from the trust to fund enormous loans to the wealthy and corporations in the form of tax cuts. It is now time to correct the books by properly labeling the Bush tax cuts “loans” and calling in those debts… it is time for the wealthy and corporations to repay their loan and pay more taxes.