The price at the pump ,food, clothing, health care all rising as our dollar shrinks in value. The National debt has grown to over sixteen trillion dollars, and the unfunded liability to one hundred and twenty five trillion. We are further in debt and our economy is still not growing fast enough . We need to clean house and get America back on track. Obama has failed and needs to go . The $1.6 trillion dollar spending deficits his administration have had for four years are ruining and chance to fix SS. and Medicare. How do you fix these programs when the bulk of the budget goes just to pay interest on the debt. We need to send them all to debt counseling.

Tiverton is and thats a fact

"The $1.6 trillion dollar spending deficits his administration have had for four years are ruining and chance to fix SS. and Medicare. How do you fix these programs when the bulk of the budget goes just to pay interest on the debt. We need to send them all to debt counseling."

There are so many tedious misconceptions in this, and every post made above your paygrade, Joe. If you're serious about considering debt reduction, you'll need revenue - that comes from taxation.

If you're serious about filling the coffers, you'll realize that thirty years of "Trickle-down" economics has failed.

You would need the memory capacity of a goldfish to forget the dark days after
Lehman brothers went under, and the mess backstage was revealed.

The DoJ has finally charged one of the major players in the colossal fraud that
lead us here. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/24/us-bankofamerica-fraud-lawsuit-idUSBRE89N17120121024

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/06/why-can-t-obama-bring-wall-street-to-justice.html

Claiming that Obama has been the root of all evil in this betrays the publication date of your history text - Jan 2009. (Believe it or not - things happened prior.)

http://seekingalpha.com/article/640561-the-case-for-the-dollar-nothing-has-changed

You don't like Obama - we gittit.

Shouldn't you be polishing cans of spam before Armageddon?

Tiverton is and that's a fact. REALLY??????? All I have seen is pay this or pay that not to mention taxes. No wonder people want to move out of town.

Wow Naome lets go back to the first two years of Mr Obama being in office. Now we also have to bring in Mr Harry Reed and Ms Nancy Pelosi in on this too. Seems that Mr. Reed increased his share of the Federal pork pie for his home state by over double what he had been taking and Ms.Nancy Pelosi just had to have the Air Force go out and buy here a special jet just to ferry her butt back and forth from Foggy Bottom to the land of fruits and nuts when ever she wanted it. She was upset they didn't have one available for her 24/7. The ones they did have were being used to ferry wounded troops out of Iraq. AND it had to be stocked with all TOP SHELF booze and she didn't pay a dime for it. No it was paid for by the Air Force and that means US the tax payers. At least the speaker of the house takes commercial flights home and flies in coach just to save the tax payers money. Yup I think he saved quite a bit compared to Nancy who cost us over $75,000 each time she when back and forth. Then we get to Mr. Obama and one of the first things he does with Harry and Nancy is to get ACORN as much money as he can stuff down their throats. A nice 6 million dollars just to the Chicago office that he help with legal work and was on the board. Sure turned out to be CORRUPT. OH wait all of this must have been Bush's fault right? And the list just goes on. Mr. Obama and company have driven the debt higher and faster then anyone before them. We won't be here but our grand kids will be paying for it

True dat Tuna Man! I've had nothing but financial heartache since I moved here 10 years ago.

Naome.....fixing debt does not come from taxation in order to get more revenue.....it comes from living within your budget and not spending more then we have. It doesn't matter how much they tax us, we need to get our spending under control and unfortunately for us Obama could care less about reducing spending. This whole idea that we need to spend or print our way out of this is ridiculous.......remember, taking a credit card from the bank of china is unpatriotic......right?

And how much did goin into Iraq under false pretenses cost us? The point isn't whether or not its Bush's or Obama fault.. It's the fact that when Clinton left office we were 5 trillion in debt it's was 3.5 trillion when he came in ... Bush left us with 10 trillion in debt that's almost 7 times what Clinton spent. Obama has increased it 6 which is a lot but he's trying to think outside the box and there is only so much you can do when the party of no isn't willing to negotiate in Washington... AGAIN ... This is both party's fault but yes some major issues were left over from bush and more were created under Obama ... But it will increase just the same under Romney and his fantasy tax plan... How long before we hear sorry middle class but the rich need more tax breaks so they can hire people so we aren't goin to raise taxes but your can foot the bill for college and planned parenthood etc... This notion that democrats are spenders and the republicans are savers is b.s. Romney will set us back 10 years ... The rich don't care if I make it or not so why should I care if they get taxed more? When they do get tax breaks it goes back into their pockets no into jobs like they claim... The richest people complain about something costing 100! While the middle class just shut up and pay for it without bitching.... Stop being so one sided and hold your party accountable as we all shod hold both sides accountable for this mess.

Really Matt....party of no!........didn't Obama own both the house and senate for the first two years of his presidency?, yes he did. Yet he got nothing accomplished. He could have passed anything he wanted.

Trickle down taxes . Tax the Rich says the Tax and Spender. So the over taxed businesses raise prices on goods and services to cover the cost. Who pays the tax .The people who consume goods and services. The true and tested answer is control spending and grow jobs. We all know our Government has grown too big and needs to be down sized.

Cutting the size and scope of Government works well. Once the new president is elected we will see how it works. America will finally begin to recover .

He actually did get stuff done ... Just not stuff u agree with... He came into office having to tackle the auto industry which is thriving now... He had to bail out Wall Street which was a necessary evil and he passed the healthcare bill to us demon democrats that's getting stuff done , important stuff... Now the republicans are holding the middle class hostage just because they don't want to go back to the rates that Clinton had... That's not even raising taxes they are just going to expire but that isn't gonna damage the middle class as much as the wealthy right? I was trying to be objective and state that both sides are to blame but obviously Fox News or should I say GOP tv, have gotten to you... Go vote Romney but if he gets elected you'll jump at the chance to say " oh he has tol fix the prior administration's mistakes but we're not allowed to say that about bush because his presidency was so great right?... Oh wait this makes sense... Women should not be allowed to make their own decisions for their body and how dare gays think they should have the right to marry ... In the same breathe you'll bitch about how unfair it is to tax the rich more than the middle class. Talk about living within our means 90% of the middle class is struggling 90% of the wealthy got three time richer than they were 3 years ago ... Sitting on trillions of dollars ... Cuz they are " afraid " give me a break that's bs