Contact: Don Swarthout, President, Christians Reviving America's Values (CRAVE) and Patriotic Pastors, Inc., 859-219-1222, 859-619-2811 cell

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 /Christian Newswire/-- Don Swarthout, President of Christians Reviving America's Values said today, "When will we wake up to the fact that Democrats and Republicans are more alike than they are different?  Both are more concerned with getting elected than stopping our out of control spending."

Swarthout continued, "Both Democrats and Republicans today have to promise the moon just to have a chance of being elected.  This is a major reason for out of control spending by our government."

Our national debt has doubled under Republican George W. Bush and that will continue no matter who is elected in November.  Our current national debt ceiling of $11.3 Trillion Dollars is equal to a pile of $1,000 dollar bills stacked more than 700 miles high.  When we add the national debt that is "off the books," it becomes $54,000,000,000,000.

America is in deep trouble when it comes to borrowing or printing more money for Stimulus Packages, Pork Barrel Spending and Government Give Away Programs.  We cannot continue to spend money like it is going out of style unless we have the money. 

If we continue to print money we will ruin the strength of the dollar and we will make it worthless.  Some experts feel that day is very close to becoming a reality.  You simply cannot run your household budget like we allow the Federal Government to run their budget.  If you did our dollar would be worthless, our economy would be ruined and you would be broke in a short order.

Swarthout said, "We have to bite the bullet right now.  We must stop printing money and borrowing money in such a reckless way.  We have to find a President who will insist upon living within a budget, pay off our national debt and not allow spending on government give away programs."

Swarthout said, "Maybe we should not allow anyone to serve more than one term as a Senator or a Congressman.  Maybe we should vote every incumbent out of office in order to meet these objectives."

"Our Declaration of Independence says when government becomes destructive it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and institute a new government.  Maybe that should be a real possibility," Swarthout suggested.