If you compare our GDP with our total debt, it's the equivalent of saying $150K vs $150K. Your $200K is a completely made up number.
And I gave you the quote from the report about the downgrade. It clearly says the downgrade is due to the controversy and policy debate and not the actual debt itself. Sure, if there was never any debt there would be no debate, but that's like me saying if you had never been born we wouldn't be talking now.
We're running TRILLION dollar deficits that are projected out for YEARS and you accuse me of making up numbers?
The "controversy" is about the deficit, Einstein! What part of that concept don't you grasp? The rating agency that downgraded us was looking for cuts to the size of the deficit. The Obama Administration didn't come even close to delivering them. We got downgraded. It really isn't a hard thing to understand.
Curious then, why didn't they say that?
They actually DID say that but you with your partisan blinders on can't see it. We got downgraded because the rating agency was convinced we didn't have the political will to get our deficit under control...and guess what? They were right. Guess what...we're probably going to get downgraded AGAIN because we still aren't addressing the deficit. The reality is that Obama "talks" a good game about raising taxes on the wealthy but he never did because he knew it would adversely affect the economy, Now he knows that the GOP controlled House won't vote for it so he's SAFE to say he wants it even though nothing has changed economically. So we won't be getting tax increases and we won't be getting cuts to entitlements but somehow we're supposed to shrink the deficit? How exactly is THAT happening? But you can't see THAT either because you believe the line of bullshit this guy has been feeding you for three solid years.