But hey! We Americans must like living in debt. Average credit card outstanding balance is over $6K.

Something has to give.

It doesn’t. I won’t try to defend against McClame continuing the path of madness and destruction.

I was only trying to point out that this isn’t just a Republican/Democrat thing.

BOTH OUR MAJOR PARTIES HAVE PLANS TO FURTHER THE NATIONAL DEBT. McClame, by furthing tax cuts (which I haven’t seen yet to verify), and decreased domestic spending. Obama/Clinton by increased taxes and increased entitlements.

There really is only two ways to reduce the deficit or the rate at which it is increasing:

Cut spending
Increase revenue

Not sure further tax cuts will increase revenue (as claimed by Bush II). I also am not excited about new tax cuts for corporations. But I am sure new entitlements will result in more deficit spending.

I have always said that the expiring Bush Tax Cuts benefit MORE than just the rich, and letting them expire will hurt many of us regular folk. Careful examination of the individual items, would allow only those to expire which don’t impact middle class/working people.

Even if you took every penny of the top 5% of wage earners, and left them penniless, it wouldn’t be enough to resolve the debt issue.

So something has to give. But that is only if you really DO want to address the national debt, and it’s not just a trendy issue for democrats.

Denial that both parties are responsible, is how they get away with it repeatedly.

We have to get mad like on immigration issue.

And deliberately creating deficits to force spending cuts is like blowing all your money on booze so you don’t have to pay the rent.

And Pelosi PROMISED to do something about gas prices!

Agreed! Not to mention this past year under the democratic controlled congress.

All our politicians seem to like to write checks with insufficient funds.

Sounds like the agenda for the last 8 years!

Because I am critical of your party does not make me a republican. I am an equal opportunity critizer.

Well now you know:

National Debt the day Clinton took office:
4,174,218,594,232.91
National Debt the day Clinton left Office:
5,727,776,738,304.64

1.6 trillion (count them) dollars

http://www.treasurydirect.gov

But you confirm my point: You were either too dumb (your words) to figure out the math when Clinton was president: Or the debt didn’t matter as long as a democrat was in office – spending more money and ringing up more debt.

It’s only an issue for 8 more months. After Clinton is elected, the Deficit/Debt will not make the news at all, because there’s no way to advance their Socialist cause without out-of-control spending. The Libs won’t be able to raise taxes fast enough to pay for all of their wet-dream promises.

That must explain why democrats do not acknowledge that President Clinton increased the national debt 1.5 trillion (count them) dollars under his watch.

When obama loses to mcsame, it will be diebold’s fault, Hillary’s fault, Wright’s fault, racism’s fault…

Everyone’s fault but obama’s.

That wont serve him or his party well in 2012.

heh heh heh heh hehehehehehehhe!

from your lips to god’s ears….

I’ve got no problem whatsoever with people having sex. I just shouldn’t have to pay for it. If you can make the “mature” decision to spread your legs, then you can pay for it, why should I?

My question is WHO is suppose to keep and eye on these. We can’t even keep an eye on the people that we are already doling out BILLIONS of dollars to in so called “entitlements” and keeping tabs that they ARE entitled.

Whats the point of setting up regulations if there is no one to make sure that the regulations are being followed. And this goes for ALL programs, whether started by dem or repub. The fiasco with the DOD credit cards is a perfect example. And before you start running your usual bush bash, believe I don’t think it is limited to just the DOD, I have no doubt that there are plenty of the entitlement programs that are being misused to a tune of much much more loss.

Stop all new programs until we can get a handle AND enforcement on the ones we have now.

Wouldn’t it be nice if all who are so afraid of sex would just get laid!??