Dr Alan Parks's blog

I believe limiting the amount of money government can legally spend to an amount no greater than that which it takes in would be one of the greatest, most meaningful achievements of this generation. I also believe that the most effective – and most permanent – way to do this is by amending the U.S. Constitution to require a balanced budget.

My name is Alan Parks. I live in Texas, where I’ve been a practicing Obstetrician/Gynecologist for 21 years. I care so deeply about this issue, which has the potential to so greatly affect our future and our children’s future, that I recently left my medical practice to launch Americans for a Balanced Budget Amendment, an organization which will fight to help dig our children’s generation out of the hole that year after year of deficit spending has created.

At present, the United States of America, the most prosperous nation in the history of mankind, is borrowing from its children in order to pay its current bills. Our government annually spends 10, 20, even 30 percent more than it takes in – a massive exercise in deficit spending that has left us with a national debt that is currently over $9,500,000,000,000 and growing.