Originally Posted by
ChecklistMonkey
If you are making $100k a year and lose your job, your debt problems aren't that you are spending too much. It's that you no longer have a job.
You can't give massive tax cuts and then blame the deficit on too much spending. The growing deficit is because they enacted tax cuts without regard to budget demands.
That being said, no one on the right complained about military spending when we went it alone in Iraq.
Bad analogy. Tax reciepts didn't fall to zero so your "losing your job" hypothetical is irrelevant. They are very high and have been for a while. To fit that into your analogy, it would be like you got a raise but increased your spending and are crying that you're broke because you can't appropriate some of your neighbor's money.