Two words.....15 Trillion. That is going to be quite a bit for the grandchildren to have to come up with. Conservatives, Democrats and Republicans are ONLY concerned about the debt UNLESS their own interests are threatened and then it is SPEND SPEND SPEND. That I have a real issue with.
I don't for a minute believe that our debt is the result of taking care of the truly poor and needy.
It's the result of wasteful pork spending. It's the result of mismanagement. It's the result of not taking steps to mitigate a second oil price spike. And it's the result of stupid trade policies with communist countries that have lowered the import tariffs that our founding fathers put in place to where they are almost non-existent.
And I don't think you can balance the books by letting the poor die, because that's going to bring God's judgement on the country. And no amount of deregulation or detaxation is going to help us then.