Becuase not until the last presidential election where Obama promised to cut earmarks and spending...did any of us really notice an issue with the debt.
Please recall...it only became news over the last couple of years.
Fuuuuccckkk..
It was news when congress dropped Paygo and Bush passed those tax cuts.
Then started two wars.
Then passed a new entitlement.
Then cobbled together a whole new department (of homeland security).
Then passed more tax cuts..
Where the heck have you been?
Mars?
Then Obama added 730 Billion more, started 3 more wars, and is trying to triple down with another stimulus. He has also blown more money in two years then any President in U.S. history. Still wont offer a plan to deal with our debt. Did you look at the votes he missed ? Almost ALL of the ones libs hold dear, yet you libs have no balls to look. Hold his voting record up against any of his challengers. If you find one of his challenger who almost never voted then post them up.
What three wars?
And the stimulus was to repair the damage caused by the nuclear explosion done to the economy by Bush and company. It was half of what it should have been and much to reliant on Conservatives nonsense..like tax cuts.
The Republicans have no plan to get out of debt. What they want to do is crush the economy and get rid of Medicare and SSI while giving tax breaks to the wealthy. And that would be the killing blow to the Republic and the start of a new Plutocracy.