Why do democrats think that the purpose of government is to go into debt?

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Our history seems to be one of Republicans getting into office, giving tax breaks and other things to the wealthy, and soon the nation faces another recession/depression Democrats are then elected to straighten out the economy and when all is shippy-shape the Republicans get elected again and the whole pattern is repeated. The question is how does this happen? What are the magic words the Republicans use to get reelected? Do we feel guilty not giving Republicans their turn at running the nation, do new generations come along and believe the Republican promises. And one tactic Republicans use is that the Democrats didn't cure the economy quicker after Republican recession/depression. Is it the Republican promises that everyone will become rich as their candidates i.e. Romney if we elect them?
Of course one tactic has been to change names and events, i.e. Truman becomes a Republican, and Hoover a Democrat; Republicans pay off our debt and Democrats borrow.
As to our debt, that debt has been paid off only once in our history and that by a Democratic president.

Yet you refuse to admit that the DEM or liberal programs and the spending on them are what drives the debt... and when you have that high spending and high taxation, it is a super drain... it should not be.. there is no reason why ANY citizen should be paying anywhere close to 50% of their earnings in total taxation... think of it, the government and progressive thought makes it seem like HALF of what you earn should not be yours

Now... what Republicans should have done is when you cut taxation, you should also cut spending. Bush II was horrible fiscally because of this... and there should also be no citizen who earns even one dollar in income paying zero in income tax on their earnings... this pandering has put us in financial trouble as much as the spending itself

What did Bush spend money on? He spent it on two useless wars, and tax cuts to the wealthy.
What are Democrats spending money on, trying to finish off that last Bush war and get the nation moving again economically. Ordinarily at this stage of the recession the Democrats again control the government but this time the Republicans have a majority in the House, and the House Republican's goal is to make the Obama fail and thus the nation fail. So it's taking the Democrats longer to get the country moving again. I wonder if people remember how close we came to a full blown depression? Maybe that's the reason Historians have rated Bush as the second worst economic president the US has ever had.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has warned Congress that the rising national debt and projected deficits are going to have far reaching negative impacts on America. That decrease in GDP growth has a cumulative impact as it is not replaced and results in fewer and lower paying jobs. The Democrats are failing to address the problem in a serious manner. At best they've proposed up to about $4 trillion of reduced spending over ten years but that only represents 20% of the deficits so the national debt will continue to grow at astronomical rates. If we go from $14 trillion in debt to $22 trillion as projected even with $2 trillion in deficit cuts then the interest on the national debt will cost $1.1 trillion per year. This requires taxation that cannot be used for government programs and expenditures and is more than the projected annual deficits for the next ten years. We need both major reductions in expenditures to significantly reduce the deficits and if a balanced budget cannot be reached through spending cuts then the difference must be made up for by increasing FICA/Payroll taxes for Social Security/Medicare shortfalls and by general tax increases for other expenditure shortfalls. But the cuts must come first and only after every dollar that can be cut is cut should Congress ask the American People to pay more in taxation.