No one with the possible exception of Ron Paul was talking about paying the debt off, Romney/Ryan talked about balancing the budget in 10 yrs, after first saying "30 years". Besides the 12 months prior to November 6th, 2012, it was widely declared that "the recession is over!".
The problem is with our system is "every dollar that is in existance is borrowed from the fed", if the government was able to pay the debt off, it would only be because someone else would take on that debt (taxpayers in the private sector) . To illustrate, say there are only 10 dollars in existance and they are all borrowed dollars, with interest due on them....where would the "eleventh dollar" come from to pay it off. The only possible way would be a Biblical "year of jubilee" where debts are forgiven.
John Maynard Keynes wouldn`t recognize what we are doing in his name at the present time. We are essentially "hiring people to go around town to break windows" to stimulate the economy with the activity of "fixing windows". That`s what we are exactly doing when we hire unneeded police to fight non-existent crime, making pre-school(babysitting) mandatory so that more teachers are hired and creating more unaffordable entitlements (0bamacare).
I think you must play the hand dealt to you and we are Keynes on steroids. That being the case that we want to stimulate the economy through government spending, let`s do it smartly. Fix our locks and dams on the river(look at Brazil`s infrastructure nightmare), build and fix our roads and bridges, at least give the okay to projects like the Keystone pipeline. And for God sakes, do NOT grant amnesty to illegals which would make 11million more eligible for the government tlt. Again, 11 million illegals "doing jobs that Americans won`t" ...and 11 million Americans that are out of work...DO THE MATH!
