Democrats only? Dealing with the budget?

Your history is skewed. The recently extended Bush era cuts have done nothing in the way of stimulating the economy, and if you decrease taxes, you decrease revenues to the treasury. There is also no evidence that lowering taxes pushes businesses to increase their workforce. They tend to move towards more productive smaller workforces so that more of their revenue stays in their pockets. Even the so called "king of republicans" Ronald Reagan supported 11 tax increases in his first term. Taxes aren't bad, they are what makes things work, like road repair crews, and fire departments and police, and paramedics.....it borders on middle school mentality to believe that cutting taxes for the wealthiest members of this society will create "trickle down". It failed before and will fail again regardless of how it's re-presented. I do believe that our president signed the extension for the Bush tax cuts, and hey, can't you tell, look how stimulated the economy is, wow. We need infrastructure repair, we need jobs, and the two go hand in hand, but you know, it takes tax money for your government to maintain the streets and keep the sewage treated, and a hundred other services that no one wants to do without but doesn't seem to want to pay for.