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Ernie wrote: Most people are so caught up in the arguments over D and R and pointing fingers wanting to blame someone when all along we the people are to blame.  Just a thought.

 
Ernie - True!!!!!
 
The problem is that both parties have tried their best to give the people what they want. (The war in Iraq excluded).  And that "policy" to be polite, or "scheme to get votes" to be more realistic, has for 40 years built up a giant deficit.
 
Saying the economy was better under Clinton is fine, I would not argue. But I think the real problem is the mindset that would say a 5 Trillion Dollar Deficit (as existed under Clinton) was not all that bad.
 
The deficit in the 90's was like a small hole in the haul of a big party boat. We were all having a good time on the cruise, but the boat was still sinking.
 
On MainStreetMonroe.com there is a very very very active forum. http://www.mainstreetmonroe.com/Voice/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=2
There are about two dozen new threads a day with hundreds of posts on that forum. Someone put out a thread about the Freddie Mac and Fannie May Fed takeover. That is of course a giant story that has very far reaching implications. It has 3 replies and will soon be pushed off the page for inactivity.

I mention this because it’s an example of the average person only worrying about the immediate things that affect them. That story, much like the deficit, will go ignored by most people.