do you read the things you respond to?
did I not say I was opposed to deficit spending?
did I not say I wanted a smaller government, to which you responded by bringing the age old discussion of republicans vs democrats?
Smaller government fixes the issue of tax and spend and borrow and spend, because.... wait for it......
YOU'RE NOT SPENDING!
how hard of a solution is that for you to comprehend?
We do not have the money to spend, we cannot raise taxes to cover the deficit. You could tax everyone in the country at 100% and our GDP is STILL NOT ENOUGH to cover our deficit. Government must reduce it's size or it will drag this country into bankruptcy and introduce Americans into being a third world country.
Think that can't happen?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_economic_crisis_(1999-2002)
http://www.survival-spot.com/survival-blog/argentina-collapse/
let's see, things that led to Argentina's Collapse....
Shrinking GDP, yep, we've got that
Assumption of private debts by the public sector, hmmmm, TARP and Bailout monies, yep.
Devaluation of currency to finance more debt, yep, pretty sure we've done that.
Trade Deficit, check that one off the list
Unemployment at historically high levels, yep.
If we are not cautious in the management of our debt we will have inflation, and when inflation happens how will we import things? how will we buy goods from China? How will we buy oil? We will lose the ability to import things that people need/use in their daily life, and at that point the SHTF.
I just wish that I could make you understand that this is not a republican vs democrat conservative vs liberal argument. This is something that MUST be done or we will destroy this country. Unfortunately you're so hung up in your political parties that you can't realize that they are basically one in the same and that they have been working in conjunction to ruin our country for the last 60 years with failed social programs and experiments.
I suppose that you're just going to come back and spout off some more comments about the differences between the democrats and republicans, or something inflammatory . Let me just remind you of your own words:
So stop arguing about which party is to blame and start figuring out how to overcome the issues. Better yet, contact your representatives and tell them that.