IBTBPA (in before the blogpimp alert) ... kool Tees, BTW.
The true cause of government debt: They don't treat tax money (or taxpayer liabilities like debt) as being real money. It's pretend vote buying money, and while it'd be easy to say both parties are equally responsible, the truth is that its an ever expanding liberalism within the Republican party that is constantly enabling it.
Every single congressman who's trying to hold the line now voted to spend 1.5 trillion dollars we didn't have not just once, but twice, through these idiotic continuing resolutions. The little chips we've gotten as part of all of this isn't even a . on the overspending scale.
Our Tea Party representatives need to be blunt and block any funding for useless agencies and programs. They can't operate without congress giving them a budget. And one house can shut down the entire government if need be over the issue, and they should. This can't continue anymore.
Not raising the debt limit is a bandaid after the self inflicted wound. Demand a real budget, demand a real financial plan, and above all, limit the budget deficit - and if you're limiting it to one 1/15th of the GDP, you're not limiting it at all. Worse is the present plan which is 12% of each and every transaction done in the US. That's unsustainable.
If Congress passes legislation allowing the Administration to spend more money the American People don't have, the Administration will spend more money the American People don't have.