Originally Posted by raymor

True, in recent years both parties have had deficits.
BUT it took 200 years to accumulate $10 trillion in debt and just 2 1/2 years to add another 4.5 trillion with Obama and these dems.
No other president or Congress has come near to over spending by four and half trillion dollars in just a couple years.

In other words, Obama and his democrat congress overspent 25 times as much as the average. To put it in more familiar terms, that's the same as if a 50 year old man with $100,000 in total debt
suddenly put another $40,000 on credit cards in just six months.

It comes out to something like $30,000 more per tax payer that we now owe.
$30,000 of new debt for each of us is unprecedented and that's what has many people greatly concerned. That and of course what we've ben doing that last 20 years is simply stupid.
Just because Clinton and Bush helped put us into debt doesn't mean anyone thinks we SHOULD be in debt up to our eyeballs.

The republicans have just been forced by their base to start getting serious about it. At the same time, the democrats have put their political futures more and more in the hands of people who expect the tax payers to carry them, so the dems can't get serious about a responsible budget without losing their base.