I'll Put That on My Credit Card

The Senate voted to increase the US National Debt ceiling to $9 trillion. Then they went and spent over $100 billion more while keeping Bush's irresponsible tax cuts for the wealthy. According to the site, US National Debt Clock, that means each citizen owes $27, 696.

As a twenty-something that really concerns me because it will be my family and I who will have to pay this thing off. I had thought a key principle of the Republican party is being a fiscal conservitive. Weird that Democrats are the only ones who can balance budgets then.