Please only select between those two options, and feel free to explain your choice. I'd like to set up a voting thread, but I don't know how to do it.

I think the opinions of Obama/Pelosi/Reid on this issue are far outside the mainstream.

It's a spending problem...

We've created this massive bureaucracy that makes it nearly impossible to do anything efficiently. And whenever there's a problem, the solution is to study it, and then hire more bureaucrats, who do little to solve any problems...

We give money away to other nations, rather than taking care of the infrastructure in this nation...

I could go on and on. But it wouldn't do any good. Nobody with any power to resolve these issues would listen...

Spending problem, for sure. Like BC, I could go on and on about this. With the exception of my wife, what sane person or company spends more than they take in? So even if government revenues dropped, so should their spending.

SPENDING
Problem.
You do not have a problem if you don't spend too much.
Lord knows our governments get more money than they should now.

It's a revenue issue.

They steal plenty of revenue idiot.

In right-wing bizarro world taxing people is stealing. It's not just akin to stealing, but it's actually stealing. There's just no reason to take your ilk seriously.

Governments job is clearly defined. Monies taken from citizens for anything else is theft indeed.

We definitely have a spending problem but I'd like to see it solved by doing what both democrats and republicans are saying instead of either or.

Its a spending problem. Yes revenues decreased recently during the recession and dismal "recover", but like any household the appropriate reaction would have been to trim spending to match (or in this case) more closely match revenue. They problem there lies in the fact that there hasn't been a budget in 4 years because the party in charge doesn't want their spending problem put to paper for the American public to see.

Spending problem which leads to the revenue problem.

One of the biggest problems we have in government is that if an agency actually "fixes" the problem they are created to fix, there is no more need for them. Human nature is to "not work yourself out of a job"....... so instead of eliminating the problem, the tendancy is to actually make the problem bigger which in turn means more funding and more job security.

Bureaucrats and lobbyists are the biggest culprits for the money pit that is Washington.