The Democrats don't care about the deficit at all. The Republicans also don't care about the deficit, except when they're not the predominant party. Then all th

The Democrats don't care about the deficit at all. The Republicans also don't care about the deficit, except when they're not the predominant party. Then all they do is talk about the deficit. Debtors really don't care about the deficit. There's not a lot of places to park large quantities of cash. Even if the US Treasury was offering a measly 1% most bond buyers would still take that over any higher yielding riskier debt. It still confounds the typical US taxpayer that other countries buy our sovereign debt because that is how they insure their currency.