Debt, debt, debt. Spending, spending, spending. Well, so what? Big deal, right?

This is the first time in American history that our generation will do financially worse than our parents. And, all of this is thanks to the pathetic conservative mentality.

The giant battle over ideology and the clash of economic and law making philosophy are fueling the political war today. To avert a government shutdown on April 8, a deal was signed by the President and the Republicans to cut domestic spending by $38 billion. Bipartisanship at its best, I’m sure, and the fight for spending will only continue to devastate Capitol Hill and our country.

While a deal was forged between the Republicans and the White House to drastically cut spending, this is a blip of a victory to be shortly savored by both sides.

The Republicans bring nothing more to the table than an ideology, talking the talk. President Obama brings forth hope and optimism that will fix our long-broken society.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the chair of the House Budget Committee, finally revealed a plan to reduce the deficit while cutting vast amounts of domestic spending. Ryan’s plan proposes to cut $4 trillion over 10 years, whereas a plan brought forth by Obama cuts $4 trillion over 12. The two plans, however, are starkly different about bringing these changes, and Ryan’s plan just won’t cut it, so to speak.

The Republicans are playing a card trick, and it worked in the Congressional elections last year. Their smokescreen was so successful that Obama now has to cater to the misinformed American people by cutting funding and taking a more centrist approach. He is damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. Politics at its finest.

The Republicans have much of the American people soiling their pants from fear of the darned communist government that wants to kill us all. That government is a lie, video game fans.

While Ryan talks about government spending ad nauseam, Obama’s plan gets things done with investments into our future, taxing the rich, and closing the gap that plagues our society.

If consumers and the government stop spending, the economy will collapse. While the conservatives whine about the national debt, they have no idea what spending actually does.

Perhaps one of the most important parts of government spending is providing for equity. When there is no equilibrium, and the lower- and middle-classes shrink, the rich become market powers and this results in a market failure. We saw this in 2007, but it seems the public forgets how much the Bush administration really put our economy in a salad shooter.

As the Republicans fail to understand that government spending helps the poor, their policies are entirely selfish. Ryan, in his rebuttal speech after Obama’s State of the Union Address, mentioned the words “debt” and “spending” countless times, yet didn’t mention a plan whatsoever.

We have a major equity problem in this country, where the record gap between the rich and the poor looms over us. The Republican ideology drives their motives to not tax the wealthy. Ryan’s proposal, sad as it is, does not consider taxing the wealthy. This will cost us trillions of dollars over the next 10 years and beyond. This will not only fail to help pay off the debt efficiently, but it will continue to ruin the country.

The Republicans think that the rich serve as a spending power. However, referencing the past, they don’t spend their money, but rather invest it into various commodities, stocks, and so on. Another Great Depression, anyone?

So what’s in store for our future?

If the Republicans win, you will be sitting around in your old age, struggling to pay your bills. With Social Security lacking funds, and the Republicans privatizing Medicare, good luck having any money.