And if that doesn’t do it for you, try this on for size, U.S. Budget Deficit Down 37.6 Percent Through July: CBO http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/12/us-budget-deficit_n_3745096.html

Oh, and by the way learn to write correctly. It is uneducated to not know how to capitalize and it makes for difficult reading. If you want to be taken seriously, you have to show you have the concern for the comfort of others to make the shit you post readable.

such an individual had a certain amount of income each year for year after year, and along the way kept spending more than he made. each year he decided to spend even more, increasing his lifestyle without paying for it but by using credit based on the income he expected in the years yet to be lived, from the income he wouldn’t have for years and years. but this is our country.

and the sad fact, the reality, is that debt is either repaid or you go bankrupt. we are, as a country, already living on money our great great grandchildren will be paying in taxes, and even beyond that. and the question is simple.

if our descendents of several generations will be paying off the debt this country has amassed already today, what will they be paying additionally to take care of their own needs and desires through the government? sooner or later, it has to end.

our creditors want their money repaid! and sadly, the vast amount of what this country owes isn’t to foreign countries, it is to us through savings bonds, T-bills, loan guarantees and all sorts of programs such as social security, medicare, etc. the point is, we are spending money that does not exist, by the hundreds of billions of dollars!! and yes, it will all collapse one way or another, and the country will be openly bankrupt, broke.

there is no way out of it. and I, for one, would rather take that ‘hit’ now than to pass it off to my kids and grandkids. i’d rather we go completely ‘dead’ fiscally and start the task of rebuilding our economy than to give in to some insane hope that somehow we can just keep everything rolling if we can just juggle our debt and keep everyone fooled about it. think about it.

you can only put so much air in a balloon, and then you can only put so many patches on the balloon as it deteriorates, an finally it just explodes.

The media backed Obama in misleading the American people prior to the last election, like the debate Candy Crowley moderated on CNN. I guess you are one of the many Americans who enjoy being lied to and you hate people who have different opinions.

You believe the Republicans do the gerrymandering? Only in a few places. Where I live the progressives do it through the city and county planning departments and right through the state government. Neighborhoods used to vote at local schools, since 1994, not anymore. We’re split into a patchwork to make sure property owners never have a majority in any precinct. Taxpayers don’t have a chance.

We’ve seen this drama played out before and, if you’ve been paying attention, you even know how it ends. The Democrats will whine about holding the country hostage but in the end they’ll agree to some modest cuts, mostly in the future. Everyone goes away claiming victory.