Artful Dodger:   a lot of speculation about what will happen in worse case scenarios.

Ferris Bueller: you're not concerned with such huge national debt? Eventually there will be 2 billions in interest alone every single day. You ok with that?

I don't care if it's Dems or Repubs, these irresponsible representatives need to get out of office and we need to put in those that will curb spending and limit government power. And Yes, Bush was a failure at curbing spending.

Artful Dodger:   I do think Cantor & the Republicans in this video do make some sense about the debt.  I do care about it, but no one has a crystal ball.  I believe that the Administration is making some hard decisions about the spending.  Right now, they are trying to divert desaster by using gov't funds to help people who are falling through the safety net, and plug a hole in the dyke by saving things like teacher's job in poor states.  Unlike Libertarians, I believe that gov't must intervene at times.  My hope is that the deficit will start to regress as people are able to find permanent jobs.  But, I have no Crystal Ball either, & neither do Libertarians.  Unfortunately here, I think we have to live with a lot of ambiguity now.