Your 'lower' tax rates, the Iraq War, tax breaks for large corporations & the failed economic policies of this administration - the same advocated by McCain - have take us from a surplue to a National Debt of $9,525,795,780 ($9.5 Trillion) dollars. Spending more than you take in - basic.
The eye-popping $9 trillion gross national debt is owed by the "General Fund." That's the part funded by our income taxes. Half of that goes for the military and to pay interest on the debt. Fortunately, two huge parts of the budget, Social Security and Medicare, are running huge surpluses.
http://zfacts.com/p/461.html
That's $31,267 for every man, woman, & child in the US - how does your family plan on paying it's share?
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