Originally Posted by Rich

That's an entire different issue. Some of the ultra-conservatives support building up a massive debt, as you can tell by their actions in recent decades, and here's why; they need it as an excuse to completely cut all social programs. These people don't think the government should do anything for people, and they're trying to undue every public program they have. Not only social security and medicare, those are just for starters. Public schools, free clinics, welfare, unemployment, everything service meant to help the public they want gone. They realize that there's no way to pull that off without massive public unrest, so they're going to intentionally manufacture a financial crisis so they can get their way. Put the country in bankruptcy and they'll have no option but to loose all social programs, certainly the military budget can't be touched. Why do you think Bush has been spending like a drunken sailer since he entered office?

This is the reason Clinton made it priority number one to balance the budget, as opposed to created additional social programs like universal health care. He was trying to save what social programs already exist. Unfortunately a majority of Americans are complete idiots who will vote against their best interests if TV tells them to and if the guy says God enough times.