I think what Jeff is trying to say is: every debt comes due, eventually. And there is a whopper of a debt on our horizon.
Thank you.
Deficit spending is almost always a bad thing to do. There are exceptions such as for a military action, but military spending is not what is busting this budget - new entitlements are.
With the military action in Afghanistan, it was a perfect time to clear out the fat in the federal budget, but instead the GOP actually created new entitlements.