We are $16 trillion in debt and have an annual deficit of over $1 trillion dollars.

We have a war going on in Afghanistan where US citizens are dying.

We have a country (Iran) run by people of dubious sanity on the verge of developing nuclear weapons.

We have an unemployment rate of over 8% for the fourth straight year with no idea when it might dip below this number.

We have a new national health care plan that no one has any idea how much it is going to cost because the government agencies tasked with implementing it aren't anywhere close to being done writing the regulations to do so.

We have a new financial regulation agency, which is totally unanswerable to any elected official, writing its own budget and regulations unreviewable by any elected official.

And this is what we are worried about?

Really?

"Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with." -- Milton Friedman