Since we're so deeply in the "I told you so" mode, I saw this coming 6 years ago when we invaded Iraq.

Wars are expensive. Viet Nam was followed by years of high interest, high inflation, while we paid that one off.

We embarked on this one, without raising taxes to pay for it. Probably because those who desired this war knew resistance would be much higher if we actually had to pay for it.

A trillion dollars later, and not one of those dollars going for the aching needs of our domestic situation like education, healthcare, a more efficient energy plan....

Basically we're screwed. But the screwing didn't start with Obama. It started with you know who.

so, yeah, open your wallets.