The looming budgets are about to begin. The question: To debt or Not to debt. So which is it? Expanding Debt and Credit? Or pulling up the bootstraps and cutting down on spending and consumption? Answer: Both. Sorry to confuse you.

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It's a New Year and a time for new beginnings... Each year we look back and see what we hoped to achieve and how far we have come--both personally and collectively.

2010 began with a painful economic recovery. We were told by official government sources that everything was getting better. Yet unemployment increased, banks closed, foreclosures continued, consumers defaulted and bankruptcies exploded. In the business world, millions of small, medium and big enterprises shut their doors. Credit was restricted and working America struggled to stay afloat.

Where are we now at the start of this new decade? Hopefully we are learning from our past mistakes so we can build a new future.

A look at the top headlines this week of a brewing partisan showdown in Congress indicates history might repeat itself. News reports warn of a "looming budget fight" over healthcare, financial reform and the growing deficit. Republicans declared they would fight to close the credit spigots and Democrats cautioned against "catastrophic consequences."

White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee issued dire forecasts if U.S. borrowing power were curtailed. "This is not a game"If we hit the debt ceiling, that's " essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy would be catastrophic. I mean, that would be a worse financial economic crisis than anything we saw in 2008."

Totally unprecedented in American history... Now that's scary and I imagine the response from the other side will be equally scary. What's not unprecedented is this argument that continues to rage for the two centuries of our history. To debt or not to debt--that is the question and has been the question since our nation began. So let's take a look.

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Monika Mitchell is the Chief Executive Officer of Good-b (Good Business International)a leading new media company xcelerating the movement for better business for a better world.