We could pay off the debt, and then Obama could go back to giving trillions of taxpayer money away to his banker and union friends.
He managed to accumulate almost $6 trillion in debt in only three years, and deserves the opportunity to do that again.
Steve, Obama works fast. While you were blinking we added $10,000.00 more debt on the debt clock and now need $130,000.00 per tax payer. Although it is a possibility that we didn’t add $10,000.00 more debt and in fact the Obama jobs stimulus has raised unwmployment so that there are fewer taxpayers left to pay the debt burden.
That’s because he is trying to get you out of the mess Bush left you in. As an anology Bush sold him a new house and Obama had great plans to extend it and make it better, but sadly he found out it needed a lot of structural repairs to actually make it livable.
What a great analogy! In fact, since Obama was a fairly regular decision maker as to the repairs and upkeep of that house for well-nigh 4 years, he was obviously buying that house with full knowledge of its condition. Then he discovered that the roof was too low for his plans, so he tried to have it torn off. Too bad about that rain-storm on the horizon! Oh, and Obama brought a massive truckload of termites with him and said that the termites were somehow the fault of the previous tenant. Also, the water bills were getting kinda high, so he took a pick-axe and busted through the sewer outflow. It didn’t have any effect on the water bill, but it sure took a lot of effort. Then he bitched about how nobody was giving him credit for all the hard work of punching a hole in the sewer.
After two years, he went golfing while his buddies had hair-spray & lighter fights in the upstairs bathroom. When he got back from a couple hundred holes, the house had caught fire and the firemen were taking their union mandated 20 minute break, so Obama rolled up his sleeves and tried to get his handicap lower than his IQ.
So you are saying Obama wa a careless imbecile, must be a self portrait for you
I think that would only be about $ 12 Trillion assuming 100 million ‘taxpayers’ whatever that means these days.
The upper 1% of those pay the lion share, I think about one million bigtime taxpayers. Lots of people pay just a few bucks in Fed (not counting FICA) and think they are kicking in. In actuality they are still a net drain. They are red ink, not black ink on the ledger.
Drastic Measures …
Repeal the 16th Amendment, pass an Amendment that only one flat rate sales tax may be in place and that there are no exceptions. Even tourists and illegal aliens would then be kicking in.
Pass an Amendment banning the redistribution of wealth to lock down the spending side.
Sell California to China in an even exchange for the return of all Treasuries they hold.
Finally shut down every federal agency performing tasks that are also/better done by states (EPA, Education, HHS, DEC, Labor, etc). Leave the barebones (Treasury, Defense, State) that states are prohibited in doing.
Otherwise we will eventually ‘balance’ the budget again, and just start over and do this whole thing over and over like Groundhog day.