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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ctrl, post: 1303299, member: 13378&quot;]I was posting to make a point against all the comparisons of how $15 trillion is some kind of impossible number. It&#039;s the yearly GDP of the USA. It&#039;s too large for sure, but running around like a chicken without a head does not help anything.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re alone on that then. Economists know better. Do the absolute numbers really mean anything when a loaf of bread 100 years ago cost 10c and now it&#039;s $2.00, but salaries have increased to the point where the loaf is relatively cheaper as a percentage of salary than 100 years ago? Comparing historical absolute numbers in economic discussions is not usually helpful.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>No one said it wasn&#039;t bad. There are steps that can be taken (in most reasonable peoples&#039; opinions that includes revenues). There are very clear reasons for how we went from a budget surplus to a huge deficit in a few years. Unpaid-for wars, huge tax cuts originally intended to return the surplus to people but now have somehow become sacred, out-of-control health care costs and a growing aging population. How people want to fix those things depends on people not being ideologically rigid, but realistic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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