Oh yeah, and the Libertarian/Republican philosophy of tax cuts has just worked so well >_>. Like I said:

>Bush's tax cuts alone cost the country an estimated 2 trillion dollars a year and the war in Iraq costs an estimated 10 billion dollars a month, that alone would have prevented the debt and allowed us to pay for all of this crap.

The idea behind budgeting for the government is to save when things are good, so that we have the ability to dig ourselves out of a hole when things are bad. Thieve a version of Democracy 2, play it on max difficulty, and see what I mean.