This ain't rocket science libs. Obama and the Democrats spent too much money, and then obligated even more still. Social Security and Medicare are not only approaching an insolvency date, but it has been moved up near a decade from where it was assumed to be just a year ago.
The deal on the table is $1 in debt increase for every $1 in cuts to current spending obligations.
We can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way. "Enough already" is the message. No more OPM for you
Right. It was "the libs", Obama and the Democrats.
We'll just ignore the 6 years that the Republicans had control of Congress AND the White House.
We'll completely ignore the spending mandated by TWO FULL INVASIONS.
We'll ignore that the Republicans' response to the increased funds that they decided to send off to be buried in a desert was to cut taxes, primarily for the rich.
We'll ignore the surplus that the Republicans squandered.
We'll ignore the Medicare additions that the Republicans signed into law.
We'll ignore the bubble economy that they sat around and watched.
We'll just ignore the $450,000,000,000 per year interest payments on the debt that the Republicans handed over.
We'll ignore that the TARP was actually signed by a Republican President.
And we'll especially ignore the fact that the Republican plan to "starve the beast" ie shrink the federal government to the size where it can be "drowned in a bathtub" has been motivating the right-wing's attack on America for the past 3 decades.
And now we're supposed to trust the Republicans when it comes to economic matters? After they sat back and watched the subprime market go into critical meltdown taking an economy that was weakened by Republican policies to the point of collapse?
We're supposed to believe that everything will be alright if we listen to the Republicans who want to take us back over the edge of economic destruction.
No thanks.