Under the right economic conditions, Obama was beatable in this election. Right now, given the poor quality of the GOP field and the issues they choose to run on.....they have little to no chance
Correct.
We are in the hole by only 15 TTTTTTTTTTrillion dollars .
So of course we can afford to continue the welfare/warfare state policies.
A welfare state = government buy the people.
And we can also afford to maintain tax rates that have not met our budget needs for ten years
Why not return to a tax structure that actually gave us a budget surplus?
Duh...because raising taxes in a weak economy will only make that economy WEAKER. What part of that concept don't you get? It's the reason Obama continued the Bush tax cuts. I swear to God that most of you liberals on this board are either wearing blinders or don't have a whit of common sense.