@corbinsmom The truth that few Conservatives will admit is that 75% of our current national debt was accumulated under three Republican Presidents since 1980. Ronald Reagan and the two Bush's hold the blame, not Obama!

Not only are they to blame for our current financial woes, the evidence suggests they did it on purpose! The strategy is called "Starving The Beast", and Grover Norquist has admitted that is precisely what the GOP policies are designed to do.

From Wikipedia: "Starving the beast" is a fiscal-political strategy of American conservatives to cut taxes in order to deprive the government of revenue in a deliberate effort to create a fiscal budget crisis that is intended to force the federal government to reduce spending (rather than restore tax levels). The short and medium term effect of the strategy has increased United States public debt rather than reduced spending...Economist Paul Krugman summarized the [Norquist/GOP] strategy in February 2010: "Rather than proposing unpopular spending cuts, Republicans would push through popular tax cuts, with the deliberate intention of worsening the government’s fiscal position. Spending cuts could then be sold as a necessity rather than a choice, the only way to eliminate an unsustainable budget deficit. Republicans insist that the deficit must be eliminated, but they’re not willing either to raise taxes or to support cuts in any major government programs. And they’re not willing to participate in serious bipartisan discussions, either, because that might force them to explain their plan—and there isn’t any plan, except to regain power." You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

Here is a recent quote of Norquist's which tells the tale: "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

So, the fact is that the radical elements in the modern Republican Party are willing to destroy our government for the sake of putting a few more dollars in their pockets. Including Paul Ryan (but not Romney).

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