Even Angola has a budget surplus, when is US government going to show a surplus?

We had a surplus years ago but we now spend way more than we take in. We have the senseless military action in the Middle East to pay for, entitlement programs that provide food and shelter for people and all kinds of projects that we are paying for but don't need. Our representatives work to draw money from the government in order to build things or provide programs in their states so that they can get re-elected. They don't care about the financial health of the country, just their re-election. Our representatives keep raising our debt ceiling, too, because if they don't they will have to start cutting spending and that will make them unpopular. It is a mess. If we as citizens lived that way we would all be bankrupt. We have a new groups of representatives in office now that have promised to cut spending and balance the budget. I don't believe them but all we can do is wait and see while the country circles the drain (goes bankrupt and ruins).

Perhaps the mighty US should stop sending money to those developing countries. I wonder how well they would be doing without that support? And then we would keep more money in this country which would help balance our budget. Of course, we can't do that....someone might complain.

It is doubtful U.S government will want to have a balance budget, let alone a surplus one. There are way too many entitlement programs in U.S that elected officials believe can not be cancelled without hurting the country and its economy, until all those assumptions are rejected by the voters, it is just another way for the present big government idealogy to direct future direction of this country. For majority of Democrats, an idealistic U.S is a country that big government can spend its way to prosperity and development, it is unlikely as long as democrats are in control of the congress and white house will want a reversal to occur, other than continue spend its way to higher debt for the next generation of American. It is also unlikely U.S is able to pay off its debts within the next decade, as it is actually not a worry for the present adminstration and those in power since the next ruling political party will have to deal with it as it is U.S politic as usual. It is quite unfortunate no U.S government officials will ever like to learn about balacing budget no matter which politcal party (republican or democratic Party) is in power, as many politicians believe they are entitled to every luxury in life without working for them. I am afraid you wishes will not materialize anytime soon.

You see the U.S. economy has been up up up since after the second world war so as with most other western economies,you see friend everything moves in cycles and that includes economics and how fortunes are made. Nobody stays up forever in the same way nobody stays down forever as seen throughout the history of man, and sad to say manifested itself in the last down turn which some experts would also term as the great equalizer. Don't worry about America, they are a very resilient peoples as they have shown in the short course of time they have been a nation, so long as they stand on the principles of freedom,God and democracy like their forefathers, it won't take long before they will be back on track again