You've got to remember that a significant portion of the country has been brainwashed to think that Republican debt = bad and Democratic debt = good.
Instead of debt = bad.
Many of these people have yet to work for a living and many that are working pay no federal taxes as has already been pointed out. It's easy to just plod along with blinders on waiting for the next round of government cheese to fall in their laps. They're getting promised plenty these days.
When the sun gets higher in the sky, they'll be showing up in droves explaining why monumental debt is meaningless. Be patient, because they don't like to get up until the sun is warm.
I think your comments are misguided - they lack any discussion of the real issues, the real distinctions between Republican dna Democrat, and instead just bash the poor.
We have a serious problem with debt - and you do what you can to misdirect from the issues about that debt.
The primary problem IMO is concentrated wealth, leeching off the rest of the society, sucking the wealth out of the US to leave the nation weakened and themselves enriched.
Democratic spending isn't perfect by any means, but in general it's aimed at a safety net and at investments in national propserity, not the 'class war' transfer of wealth to the top.
Republicans on the other hand are largely people who are happy to adopt the corporate agenda, and take the big bucks waiting for those who will make the rich richer, bucks which are fed to the policiatl campaign industry to sell the manufactured image of the candidate to get enough votes to win, and the politician then votes for those who paid for his election. This has gotten down to a science by the Bush administration when they appointed corporate representatives to oversee their own industries, and allowed those who donated enough to write the laws they wanted passed, and those who did not donate enough were not listened to, whether or not they had a valid position for the public interest. The Republican party is indeed the 'Fox' guarding the henhouse.
They keep their supporters in line by keeping them hating and afraid of the 'liberal enemy', be it gay rights, miinority rights, womens rights, socialism, terrorism, whatever works.
The important thing is keeping the people in office who will sell out the public for the interests of the rich, and that includes the skyrocketing debt.
That doesn't mean the government just writes checks to the rich, though that happens to an extent - private debt in the nation has exploded much worse even than the public debt this thread is about. Policies that lead to the transfer of wealth from most citizns to the top grow that private debt, which leads to increased demands for government assistance.
The problem to deal with is the political power of those with extremely concentrated wealth, to free money for the economy of the rest of the nation.
As long as there is an excess of concentrated wealth, there will be concentrated power that will fight and undermine democracy and the common good.
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