Our deficit is about to hit 10 TRILLION! Who's fault is it?
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Whoever voted for Bush.
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How about a story from today....\n\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/economy_dc;_ylt=Ah0HjPWTby6.X2_eWHQxKNWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--\n\nModeration... that's not really great... in a wartime economy that should be REALLY strong and with a HUGE debt that is artifically supporting our economy... come on... how long can we push the debt... OH YOU DON'T CARE... I FORGOT...
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Figures can be deceiving. Part truths-like unemployment. Not everyone is counted=they might have used up the benefits and still not working or never Qualified. And there are many examples I could write. The fact is we are in trouble. Greed is main reason. In past our debt went slow. But now we have accelerate at a fast speed-doubling and more  yearly. \n Our State 's Benefits (Aid, food stamps, housing,medical ect) can not keep up with those needing it. Schools, due to massive migration have suffered-overcrowded and not enough tax money to cover and bad spending. \n The list could go on  and on and on.\nAnd in last ten years the debt has been skyrocketing due to spending.
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well, there are two kinds of debt. Domestic and international. So yeah, come to think of it who does the US owe money to? Maybe they haven't been paying contractors or national lending organizations, or maybe they owe the IMF or World Bank some money.
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Greed and incompetence are the reasons for the results we are getting.We shouldn't be there in the first place, but some big time contractors need more time to deepen our deficit.
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The Budget Deficit is only one tiny little part of the whole debt problem the USA, and by extension the rest of the world, faces in the very near future. Yes, I realize I am saying a lot when I refer to our colossal deficit as tiny.\n\nThere is a monstrous deficit in the amount of repairs and improvements to our infrastructure that has been tossed about since the 1984 election that no one has really taken care of. Our local water systems are collapsing, and privatization has only made the problem worse. We are not working on improving our ability to complete interstate commerce upon which our economy depends. The multi-state black-out caused by a lightning strike should have been a wake up call, but if people don't care that you can't drink the water out of the kitchen sink I guess we have a ways to go.\n\nWhile we have the highest number of homeowners in our history, far too many of them are using the equity to extend the self-delusion that they are still in the middle class. This is why you see so many commercials of how neat it would be to mortgage your home to 125% of the value and take that vacation, just like the rich folks do!\n\nUnsecured debt and the resultant explosion of bankruptcy is going to plunge a large part of the population into a situation where eventually they will never be able to buy a car outside of the Trading Times and never have a chance of opening a business except a MLM nightmare.\n\nWe are allowing our growing need for energy to outstrip our ability to supply it even with foreign and unreliable sources. We are allowing a future without adequate education and job skills because of apathy on the part of parents and short sightedness of multinational employers. The list goes on and on.\n\nLets face it, the future is going to be a cold, dark and nasty place. Let's hope we're dead and buried long before it gets here.
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We know know why some people have fungus for brains. At least the democrats contract won't contain a deficit like Bush ran up, a questionably legal war, 2,700 military dead, 18,000 wounded, cuts in most programs to include Veterans, in order to give the rich a nice little bundle while the average taxpayer got $48.00.\n\nWhat it will include is a contract with the world to stop being the bully of the world. China could be the bully, but they have more smarts. We can start including, instead of excluding people, we can make sure there is still a middle class and that all the people on the dole aren't multi-billion dollar corporations who pay no taxes while shelling out millions to their officers and stockholders.(Who by the way, didn't do 1 day of work for the money).\n\nDon't make abortion the issue because everyone in America isn't a right-wing,  Anna Coulter, neo-conservative who believe they have the right to BE God. And while they try and moralize for everyone else while they steal and abuse prescription drugs, and much like the person above, they aren't willing to put their money up when they force women to have children! Instead the demean and belittle those they want to place in dire circumstances.\n\nHate to tell you fungus, but women are not baby factories for the rich, and most "welfare" money goes to rich corporations, we just call it something else.\n\nHopefully we will get rid of the "Patriot Act" which it isn't. Its a domestic spy act. And perhaps people who are elected won't steal right in front of their constituants without a care in the world because they have too much power to touch.\n\nNeil Young began writing again because he got tired for Generation X and the ME generation to take some responsibility instead of rationalizing their one after another failure.  And I hope that any new elected president won't be crazy enough to commit High Crimes and Misdeamanors by leaking the names of CIA operatives because they didn't like what they were told by a spouse.\n\nWe are going down the wrong road and have been for years. It is time we get back on track and do what is right rather what is right for you.\n\nYou know, unless you are wealthy, and I know you aren't or you wouldn't be here, there is going to be a time in yout life when you will need help. I hope something is there for you, but if it isn't, the only person you have to blame is staring back at you through a mirror.
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Technically, no one. The United states isnt borrowing money from these people.\n\nWhen the govt began having deficits, they started selling treasury bonds and other countries bought them. When you purchase a treasury bond, you are actually investing in the American Dollar. \n\nOther countries and organizations are investing in the United states dollar. Not really a loan. \n\nHOWEVER< There is a good feasable solution, that WOULD work IF the American public actually wanted its govt to stay alive. BUY TREASURY BONDS!!!!!
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NO,NO, AND DOUBLE NO!!!!All this Republican led house and senate care about is making the fat cats even fatter!They have no concern for the poor and middle class,they call the Democrats tax and spend liberals, then why is it that this country almost always does better with the Democrats in power?!Bush came in with Clintons surplus of 400 Billion dollars, now we owe 8 Trillion and rising,Go Figure!
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Yes, I think you should be upset!\nIf someone is getting back more than they pay in... WE have to pay more than we should. \nThat certainly pi$$es me off!!! I'm not responsible for their 9 kids, or their low paying job, so why do I have to pay more??\nIt's just like illegal alliens collecting welfare....NOT RIGHT!
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they want to discredit us.\n\nThis is what they did\n\nthey increased the deficit and made taxes easy to pay for the normal person. Then Countries are ticked off cause we owe them billions of dollers. So the Democrats come into power, and we are forced to raise taxes. And the Retarded Repubs. Scream and yell
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well the national debt i believe is like 4 or 5 TRILLION... so that's what 4 or 5 thousand billion.  I know he say's 9/11 alot, but probably not more than 4 or 5 thousand.    so, i guess the debt wins...   hahaha
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I think its China. We borrowed billions for the Iraq war. Though we do also owe a lot to France.
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It seems to me that this is wishful thinking. It's far more likely that the increased SPENDING has caused the rise in government collections, as the increased spending, of course, translates into more money pumped into the economy and thus higher incomes for corporations and individuals. Of course, the increase in spending doesn't cause sufficient increase in revenue to offset the total amount of deficit being created, thus the federal deficit is mushrooming.\n\nIt is also interesting to blame BOTH parties for the increase in spending when the Republicans have been in charge of both Congress and the Presidency for some time.\n\nI'll be happy to vote to make the tax cuts permanent when it is shown that they can be sustained while we address the massive debt burden we are imposing on our children.
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It does not matter if the debt is 90 Trillion of dollars.\n\nWhat are the Japanese, Germans and Chinese going to do if the United States of America Goverment does not pay them?\n\nInvade the United States of America?
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Bothers me a lot that our budget deficits are being bought like candy by every major asian power.  They take those IOU's, trade 'em for cash, and then by the shoes off our feet.  The more our government spends on useless wars and "homeland security", the more the Asians can buy us legitimately...funny how our war for oil is going to really screw us in that department in the long run.
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None for me, it goes to the American government, who takes way more than they need, if Bush hadn't grown the national debt AND FAILED to make the proper tax reform! between that and the tax CUTS for the RICH!! ... it's just bs, I won't go off on it here.\n-Duo