The best way to solve debt crisis is to turn your currency into Zimbabwe's currency.

actually he wsnt sworn in until febuary, a tactic that the dems used to delay him being a senator.

also he turned out to be a liberal, so it didnt really matter. furthermore there a tons of other liberal republicans

also they still 1 year to do what ever they liked, including destroy our country, something they did in spades

It is a sign of increased state of partisanship going on.

Sure, but as you can see, it's been a growing trend regardless of who is in the white house or the majority in congress.

Besides, compromise on some issues makes things much worse and kills the idea of voting on principle.  I'd actually rather see more people in government stick to their guns (the words hat got them elected to begin with) than vote with the flow.

However, if there is nothing that is considered off-limits and agreed to as needed, where will a nation stand?  There is a problem when everything, even the most tiny of things, is seen as a matter of principle... and this tiny thing has two or more camps that won't budge.  Problem now is that there is increasingly less concensus for anything.  What will happen is, when a crisis is seen, you will get more "Super Congress" actions being proposed and a leaning on a strong man to make tough decisions.  Like, push a constitutional amendment through to required balanced budgets, because individuals in congress can't do this on their own.  Take so much off the table, that you can't agree to anything.  And in all this, there isn't a way to provide outs for your political opponents to compromise.  You want them defeated, so that they are out of power, so you strongarm them into getting what you want, and cause their base to be so disillusioned with them that they lose their ability to vote.  And then, when you are in power, you continue a witch hunt to eliminate every single bit of anyone remotely a political opponent, and find even the most obscure of enemies to name.

As it is now, there isn't even a single break from politicking at all.  Everyone is so partisan, to the extent that, after the Arizona shooting happened, it ended up being, "Oh the Tea Party was behind it!" to "They are persecuting us!".  Thrown in the recent criminal in Norway, and that then becomes another political football to be kicked... need to rush to define the issue, and obviously he is a Christian, or at that it is more proof that the media is out to get Christians.  And the beat goes on.

@osamanobama

I love how the current Republicans are so much anti-Obama that they completely forgot everything that happened before Obama got into office.

We had a SURPLUS when Clinton left. A FUCKING SURPLUS. Then from 2001 to 2008 the Republicans did everything in their power to massively grow government and triple the national debt. Why the hell weren't they clamoring for cuts back then to increase our way to a debt free nation? Why the hell was the first thing they did was to lower revenue and kill any chance we had at ridding the nation of this debt?

A completely pointless war.
A massive reduction in our personal rights.
A completely unnecessary and pointless tax cut that primarily helped the rich and the corporations.

Then when the economy collapsed due to many other conditions, Bush and the republicans started the windfall of payouts. They were already penned and ready to be cashed BEFORE Obama came into office. He only continued them as all the economists as well as people on both sides of the isle kept saying it was the right choice. Well, history hasn't said y or n on that one yet.

Now, all you guys scream is how its all Obama's fault. He was given the biggest shit position possible in the last, I am not even sure how many presidencies, yet its his fault?!

All I've seen since he came into office is a massive increase in Republican partisanship, extremism, and hatred. This last debt debacle proves this perfectly as Obama has continuously tried to be flexible and back of his original desires to make Republicans happy. Yet, even when they produced a one-sided argument it didn't pass their own extremist group.

I'm agree we need some big cuts and reform. However, the reforms needed will never pass the rich-protecting Republicans. On top of that we must remove the idiotic cuts from 2000 to greatly increase our revenue.

I don't see how you can claim it won't help, when it was giving us a surplus in 2000. Times have changed and republicans have massively grown the government. However, those increased revenues will also even that out.

I bet you still think Obama was born in Kenya and a secret Muslim, huh?

and none of this stuff pertains to the stuff i corrected you on about your previous post

Vladimir Vladimirovich has been known for his trollish attitude as of late, now he goes wordlwide! Was surprised to see >10K comments about this single quote on some western tabloid.

He obviously right if we forget about how and why exactly current global economy was created in it's form and shape. Have said that I've remembered one of Lem's short satirical stories (the one from collection of Memoirs of Ijon Tichy) about some giant Worm people feed and worship. Kinda fits.

Time to raise those taxes, it's the only way. Taxes revenue off the U.S. is only about 25% of GDP, while most other developed countries like Germany, Great Brittain etc. are at around 40% GDP.(with the exeption of Japan). Based on the U.S. GDP of 14.7 trillion a year(yes their public debt is now 100% of their GDP) that difference of taxe revenue acounts for 2 trillion A YEAR. I know those two can't be swapped one on one that easily but it's clear it is something the government has to work on. Because a higher taxe revenue combined with the defense budget cut is really all they need to prevent the debt from increasing.

The problem is, you are easily as anti-Republican as osamanobama is anti-Democrat. First, you laud Clinton for giving us a surplus (what, no love for the Republican Congress who forced his hand?), but the only way we ever ran a "surplus" under Clinton was to raid Social Security. Debt that the government owes itself is still debt, and from 1998-2000 when the budget was "balanced" our debt still did nothing but increase, albeit at a slower rate.

Then, Bush and teh Republikkkinz created this massive shitstorm for poor Obama to inherit despite the fact that (1) at his big spending worst, Bush was dealing with a Democratic Congress, one which (2) included Obama who, as a guy who unfailingly voted the party line, joined the majority of Democrats in voting for all the bad shit Bush wanted, and (3) these problems were hardly foisted on Obama anyway, as he basically begged and pleaded for the nation to give him the chance to solve all the problems with his Constitutional Scholar™ brilliance and astonishing lack of real world work experience.

I won't even get into how Democrats helped Republicans hollow out civil liberties, or how with their supermajorities in Congress they failed to restore any of them despite all their pissing and moaning about 1984 this and police state that. Suffice to say, the problem with Obama isn't that he is a secret Muslim but rather that he's an explicit incompetent in the mold of his predecessor.