Correct. The Progressive Liberal Socialist need all of those Federal Employee Union Member to help keep them in office. SEIU is one of the largest unions supporting the Democrats, second only to the Teachers Unions.

And then Obama came and borrowed more money than all Presidents before him, including Reagan and Bush. So your point is what? Reagan had a huge mess to clean up after Carter left office. Bush had to pay all the bills that Clinton deferred on his way to a "Balanced Budget". In all honesty, no one can really hold any President responsible for the huge Deficit. Every President since LBJ has had to borrow money to pay for the huge entitlement programs that LBJ pushed into place. Like FDR, LBJ made points by giving away something, but failed to provide for a way to pay for it without borrowing money.

If you had actually done any checking, you would know that the government was in deficit spending mode 10 years before Reagan became President. It started after LBJ and the Congressional Democrats passed their expansion of social welfare programs in their "Great Society" legislation. As a matter of fact, there have only been 4 years of non-deficit spending since 1971. As far as President Reagan is concerned, he had a deal with then Speaker Tip Oneal. The deal was if Congress cut taxes for Reagan, then they would also cut spending $1.00 for every $2.00 the revenue increased. Instead, Speaker Tip Oneal and the Democrat controlled Congress increased spending $3.00 for every $2.00 increase in revenue. What you and all liberals fail to understand is deficits are caused by spending more than the government brings in. What you also fail to even look at, is that Democrats always increase spending to keep it higher than the revenue. Democrats have never been fiscally motivated. I am frankly surprised that all of them have not declared personal bankrupcy. But, then again, they control spending their own money, but are completely irresponsible when it comes to spending the public's money.

Typical Progressive Liberal Socialist propaganda. The largest part of the Federal Budget is Entitlements. One of the smallest in the Military, look at any pie chart of the Federal Budget. The entitlement part of the budget alone is larger than the revenues generated by taxes. The largest part of the entitlement costs is Medicare and Medicaid. Now Obamacare will joint those two as part of the entitlements.

You must be drinking a ton of kool-aid. You do realize that raising taxes is not good for the economy. That has been proven. Regardless of that fact though there is not enough money out there to tax enough to make a sizable dent in the debt. That tax the rich scheme would only net $70 billion a year. That is chump change compared to the deficit. Face it. Spending will have to be cut and cut fast. The Ponzi schemes known as Social Security and Medicare will have to be practically gutted to be properly fixed. OH AND GOVERNMENT SPENDING HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN TO SPUR ECONOMIC GROWTH. YOU WANT REAL GORWTH? STOP PAYING PEOPLE TO SIT ON THEIR A$$ AND GIVE BUSINESSES A SENSE OF SECURITY THAT THE GOVERNMENT ISN'T GOING TO DO SOMETHING STUPID TOMORROW. A BALANCED BUDGET WOULD GO A LONG WAY TO PROVIDE THAT SENSE OF SECURITY.

Because we still have the highest standard of living of any country in the world. It's called being a human being. You are a spoiled brat. You live in the top 5% of people in the world in luxury and that's still not enough. Even people at the poverty line in the U.S. have lives better than most people in the world. We forget that we are still a blessed nation.