Why aren't we spending our time discussing the real issues that will impact on our voting decision?

Or, if you've already made up your mind and are only using this forum to throw mud at "your" candidate's opponent...why don't you save your time as well as ours?

There are lots of issues that we ought to consider during the 69 days or so until we have to vote. I've posted this one in another political thread here, but here's a question that certainly justifies some thought and discussion...

In the past eight years the federal treasury has moved from a balanced budget to a pattern of annual spending exceeding revenues so dramatically that a deficit of almost $10 trillion dollars has resulted. The U.S. has become the largest debtor nation in the world by a significant measure. Our economy has suffered. The value of the U.S. dollar has reached a historical low point. Consumer confidence is at a similar low. U.S. citizens have little or no confidence in either the executive branch or the Congress.

Barack Obama has presented a variety of campaign proposals without clearly delineating how they would be paid for. Adoption of such proposals would further increase the deficit. John McCain says he will continue the fiscal policies of the past eight years and has made further tax cuts an important plank in his campaign platform. Financial experts have opined that neither candidate can fulfill their campaign promises without further increases in the federal deficit and that either dramatic spending cuts or significant increases in tax revenues will be necessary to begin to reduce the national debt.

Which candidate do you think will more effectively address this issue? Why?