Should we increase spending before we pay down a significant portion of the debt?

The war is too expensive and now we have to bail out Wall Street.

You can end the war in Iraq and save 12 billion a month but the bailout is a 700 Billion drop in a 60 trillion dollar bucket.

Read about Credit default swaps

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Question number two: Which citizen over 18 should not havt to pay part of the national debt? Tax cuts for these and them and tax cuts for this and that. Are you two insane?

counter-productive. Lookit it this way..hypothetically, we could cut our debt in half with GDP remaining the same -OR- we could keep our debt the same, and double GDP. ALL other things being equal, our position would be equal in either case. But....all other things are not equal. And for umpteen reasons, we'd be far better off under the doubled GDP scenario.

Now then...you might suggest that we do both - halve our debt AND double our GDP. But alas....under all the market and economic rules known to man, that would be a practical impossibility.

I care about the economy and the war

I certainly do not want to hear Palin, Biden, Obama, or McCain make a speeches about how bad the other party is