Maybe you ought to impart your wisdom to the Obama campaign. Oh, and maybe if he’d listen to you he might actually win the election instead of going down to defeat.

Oh, and Bobloblaw, you have a uniquely annoying manner of expressing your ‘wisdom’. I bet you’re a part-time instructor at a community college.

I’d bet you took some coursed from economists along the way, haven’t you?

And democratic economic thinking.

Other than your solution to the deficit, where the real solution is to put people back to work thus increasing revenue and cutting spending. Oh, and you don’t have to run a surplus to reduce the deficit, just reduce the outgo below the growth in revenue. Reduce the deficit will do the job, eliminating it would probably be a disaster, as Greenspan determined when he supported the Bush tax cuts. You do know that was a big part of the reason he endorsed them, don’t you? It was his Ayn Rand beliefs.

Oh, and despite numerous balanced budgets since WWII the debt overall has increased steadily all the time since then. Not just sine 1998, but since 1930.