Reducing the defecit should be the United States primary economic concern

I'll be adressing the issues that were brought up in the previous post. As far as me repeating arguments- this is done because your points are basically restated from your overview to your contentions for example in the overview you stated that "when the United States government officials put aside the will of their constituents to adress a national interest such as the war on terror, it puts the American people in a debt they had absolutely no control over". Now read the tagline to your first contention. The second point in your overview reads as "a continuation of deficit spending will have dire effects on the American economy and inevitably drive taxes up so as to re pay all the borrowed money the government, not the people, spent in the past decade". Now read your second contention Now if I dont refute your overview then i run the risk of you attempting to carry your arguments across the round, so i apologize for repeating my rebuttals to your arguments but I assumed that you would recognize that you repeated arguments as well and thus would qualify either me repeating argument or you trying to to carry already adrressed arguments across the round. As far as me presenting an opinion- in an argument we always present our opinions and try to support them with logic reason and evidence to try to appeal to our audience in this case the voters. Misrepresentation- This I do see as being mis represented and i apologize. I should have payed closer attention. Regardless, I would like for you to point out instances in American history where we were prevented from doing something because of this mounting debt? I do not assume that banks are lending money rather i state the opposite, that because banks arent lending money that it is neccessary for the government to spend to stimulate the liquidity of money. And I posted my sourrce for stating that the public deficit increses from one year to the next in the Gailbraith article, so I would like to see your source for stating otherwise. Yes I am. Yes I do. (I dont see where the first two questions get you?) Greece is a sovereign nation but as the article explains Greece owed a currency that they did not control as did Argentina in the 1880's but most of the United States debt is money the treasury department borrows from itself. http://www.defeatthedebt.com... No i would consider it a blatant interest of the united states and other nations around the world. According to Phillip Bobbit in his book Terror and Consent in 2005 there were 11,111 terrorist attacks around the world that resulted in over 14,666 inocent non combatant civillian deaths. (pg45) No I don't feel that blanket economic policies can be applied so i would agree to the later statement that it's neccessary depending on the situation like this one. But say if it is a financial crises such as the case in the early 1980's were inflation was rampant it would seem to me counterproductive to engage in defecit spending. China's rise as an economic superpower is vastly over rated. As far as I am aware their GDP is still below that of the United States but that is expected to change however we have to remember that they have 700 million more mouths to feed than the United States. When we break it down to GDP per capita we see that China is ranked among nations we view as third world countries. https://www.cia.gov... Also as of 2004 China's poverty rate was at 24 percent but the pverty rate was set at $1.25 a day. This isnt exactly what i would call a finely tuned economic machine. Now my questions for you 1. Do you plan on attacking any one of my points besides stating that they are theoretical? 2. If the government does not spend money and banks aren't lending(which you agreed to) and these are the only two engines to stimulate the movement of money then how do we pull out of a recession such as this? 3. Name one country that has gone into bankruptcy or that has failed economically that owed a majority of its debt in a currency that it controlls? 4. What times in america did our public defecits not increase from year to year besides the six occaisions in which they were followed by recessions? (since you seemed to disagree with this statement) I would like to state that we should carry all of my arguments across the flow of the round because they haven't been refuted Thats all, and now i await my opponents response