How do we balance the budget?

On this election day, it seems this is a pertinent, albeit a little late in the game, questions.

How do we balance the budget?  Candidates have presented a myriad of ideas about how to balance the budget.  The plans with the greatest potential for success combine increasing revenue and decreasing expenditures.  The arguments usually revolve around how to increase revenues (increase taxes is an all time unfavorite option) and which expenditures to decrease (not my program, only those other wasteful, needless programs).

My emphasis in this discussion is not on the balance but on the we.  How do we balance the budget?

If this nation is balancing the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable...the poor, elderly, the widows, then we need to say something about it.  We meaning people of faith.  We meaning those who follow Jesus. 

Jesus had already confronted a system that was built on the backs of impoverished and oppressed people.  He didn't like it then; it is unjust even today.

What are we doing about it?