because as bad as the $3 00 billion-a-month looks, it only gets worse from hereon out. suffice it to say that our economy isn't growing. it's not producing enough revenue moving forward. meanwhile, all the programs we fund are about to explode in their growth because more people than ever are going to retierks live longer than they've ever lived and the math just doesn't add up much these are facts. no one would dispute that. the debate in washington is not even about that fact. the debate is how do we solve it, how do we generate more money for government and reduce the spending at the same time? and i will at the you, this is into the debate we will solve in the month of awsmght i believe it will characterize the rest of this congress, the 2012 elections, and the years that lie ahead. and the division on how to solve it goes to the root of the dispute that we face in america between two very different visions of america's future. by the way, one not more or less patriotic than the other. patriotic, country-loving americans can disagree on their future vision of what k