Originally Posted by KirkVining

This is what happens when fear and BS issues like gay marriage and Swift Boat *******s take over an election. These topics were simply not discussed. We are moving into an era that is going to start putting pressure on interest rates, and as they rise so will our debt burden. We will eventually get to the point where we become the drug-addict brother-in-law of the world, the guy who uses his credit card to make his car payments. Look how close we are - just do the math. Our interest due is 322 billion. Our deficit is 500 billion. These issues should have been paramount in our last election, but instead it was driven by the Corporate Media Machine into distracting stupid fluff and trumped up terror fear. We are borrowing huge sums of money to give the rich in this country a huge tax cut that they do not deserve. Tax cuts should come as a reward for running government efficiently. Instead, first we engage in robbing our children to make the rich richer, and now second we are amazed that it may be getting so bad that these chickens are coming home to roost on us. We are playing with world wide economic collapse. If we do not either cut spending or raise taxes, the world is going to cancel our credit cards and the Saudis are going to repo the car.