[JeffAtlanta]

I think what Jeff is trying to say is: every debt comes due, eventually. And there is a whopper of a debt on our horizon.

Thank you.

Deficit spending is almost always a bad thing to do. There are exceptions such as for a military action, but military spending is not what is busting this budget - new entitlements are.

With the military action in Afghanistan, it was a perfect time to clear out the fat in the federal budget, but instead the GOP actually created new entitlements.

[durasell]

I don't even see anything bad about entitlement programs, in the abstract. They are something to be debated, discussed, weighed and otherwise judged. Part of this process is figuring out how to pay for them. Is the XYZ program important enough to raise taxes?

Right now there seems to be little discussion, least of all about payment.