Debt creates interest due. Those glorious bush years while he was insisting we fight all those wars (with the help of Congress) created a case of having to borrow more, thus more interest on that. Interest grows and in itself gets interest applied the next year. Is it any wonder that the budget increases? We had 10 years of the idiot n'thief and now a couple of Obama.

But I degress...its all Obama's fault. He created this debt, all by his iddy biddy self. He had no help from shrub OR Congress. The only reasonable answer is to make those who can least afford it pay it off. Do away with Senior help, do away with help for the very poor, do away with Medicare, do away with Medicaid but for Gods sake, don't change the loopholes in the taxes and do NOT, under any circumstances, roll back the bush tax cuts to the ultra wealthy. They earned all that money (off the sweat of their employees) and from being able to ship their corporations to foreign shores.