having a plan to deal with the $9.3 trillion-plus national debt.
"Not one of the major candidates for president has a plausible plan for stopping much less reversing it," said Robert E. Wright, business professor at New York University and author of new book "One Nation Under Debt," this month in a Los Angeles Times Op-Ed.
Economists say that while none of the candidates advocate a balanced budget, the Democratic candidates have gone much further than the Bush administration in offsetting spending proposals.
"You go through each and every proposal she's had and we put forward how we're going to pay for it with more specificity than Barack Obama and dramatically more than John McCain," Sperling said.
"When they announce a new plan...