We, in Canada, heard this same story time and again from liberals, and other “deniers” — right up till we hit a wall in the mid 1980’s & decided to get serious about our debt. Eliminating the deficit was painful — but, once we did so, and started reducing the debt, the benefits started rolling in.
As every “12 stepper” knows — the first step is admitting you have a problem.
You miss the point of the deficit, Obama and company are purposely running up the deficit to force a collapse of the dollar (and the Euro) The whole idea is a resultant one world government with a single currency and taxing authority to redistribute the wealth around the world.