Please explain how our deficet can be lower in 2011 that 2010 when the congress had to raise the debe ceiling?
The "statistics" shown, while being voodoo economics like TAM says, are fairly simple to explain on that point. What is presented has nothing to do with debt ceilings. It is simply the yearly, not cumulative, debt for each year. Keep in mind that each of these yearly figures adds to the cumulative figure you seem to be thinking about. I don't really care how liberal/progressive, etc... a person may be, it isn't hard to imagine the train wreck this nation is headed for with continued debt growth like we have seen in the last several years. Hard-and-fast term limits are needed for the Legislative branch to redirect the priorities of Congressmen and Senators away from the "more Government Spending to get me re-elected" mentality causing all this. I don't really trust that anyone "serving" in these august bodies longer than 10-12 years is serving the best interests of America and thier districts as much as they are serving themselves (in strategies to be re-elected if nothing else).