I figured Islandboy would understand this method, given you history of combining comments from two different threads in an effort to deceive readers here.

Let's see you do that spinning thing you're so good at. Look everyone, Islandboy is spinning like a top!

Yeah that's right. I make this kind of $$$ taking pictures and writing stories for The Nation. Hahahahaha.

I carry debt. Quite a bit of it. That said, I have already paid off one mortgage, undergrad loans (early), I'm on track to pay of the grad school loans early, and I'm out in front on my primary house loan too. There is nothing wrong with debt if managed properly. I couldn't get by without it.

As I said previously, I would accept higher taxes to pay for just about anything except more military expenditure. No sense throwing good money after bad on that one. Plus the amounts of money going into military expenditures is just obscene.

I do hope the President has the good sense to let the Bush tax cuts sunset, at least of people making more than 250K, unless the republicans can come up with a way to pay for it that is... oh wait. No need to offset tax cuts for the wealthy. Never mind.