Maybe you oughta try finding out the facts and then you might actually feel a little better about things. The federal deficit has been shrinking. Big time. It was $1.4 Trillion dollars in 2009. It has decreased now to a project $492 billion for 2014 and recent figures indicate it might be even better than that. To be fair, 2009 was an aberration. the Bush 2008 budget had about a $458 billion deficit. It went so high in 2009 of course because of all the bailout shit from the banking collapse.

that doesn't mean we don't have a shitload of a long way to go. When all of us baby boomers finally all get retired and on social security and medicare its going to be awful hard to figure out how to pay for it.

But in the meantime, the crap you hear from the pols ain't necessarily true crap. We're in better shape than we were fiscally when Obama came into the White House. that's a bitter pill but it's the truth. But then again, that's kind of like being first in a fat man's race if you ask me. Nothing much has been done to 'fix' anything and that's probably the main reason its dropped.

BKB