[TheRealThing]

:biglmao: The debt and deficit are two different things, moron.
The deficit has went down 32%.

We are paying for two wars, so debt is going to go up.

And what drives the national debt, the tooth fairy? The national debt is directly attributable to the level of federal deficit spending. Cause and effect. Maybe there is a difference between spending too much and owing too much, I don't think so but, no surprise you do. The first time we ever ran a trillion plus budget deficit was in 2009, Obama's first year. He was and remains convinced the only way out of our budget shortfalls is to go on a wild eyed Keynesian spending spree every little bit as evidenced by his ARRA of 2009. We've spent a trillion plus each year of the Obama era with 2013 projected to run only slightly less than the 1 trillion mark. More creative math ala the new way we calculate the unemployed in this country coming our way?