cutting taxes... how long before we have to pay off the "visa" bill ?

cutting taxes (even when running a deficit) of course stimulates the economy like buying stereo equipment stimulates my happiness (even when I have a huge visa bill), but at some point I'm going to have to pay off that visa or else my "house of cards" will come tumbling down... (and nobody will loan me money or it will be at an extreme rate).. I owe money to chase bank like we now owe money to the Chinese... we can keep just printing more greenbacks but that devalues the dollar as we see now... a long-term weak dollar will weaken our military and our security...

while the democratic congress deserves some flak it's the president's administration that puts together the budget and the current neo-conservatives would have you think that we can just continue to run record deficits and continue to cut taxes and continue to borrow money and it won't matter because our GDP is some great that it doesn't matter, but as we now see, it does matter...

iraq... what a brilliant move... if we really had intelligence on weapons of mass destruction we should have gone in with the shock and awe, checked the entire country for WMDs, taken out Saddam and left... what about the vacuum that that we would leave you say? there will be a vacuum there if we leave after 3 months, 3 years, or 30 years... the united states thinks in terms of winning the war in weeks or a several years but the people in this part of the world can sit and wait for decades while we occupy and then resume when we leave... can't force democracy on people... better to set a good example of what democracy and freedom are all about, that is why the torture issues and lack of legal process are so disappointing at gitmo... when you start making exceptions such as; these guys are soooo bad they don't need legal process... that's a slippery slope...

-john