Tick-Tock – It’s Time to Take the Debt Seriously

The “Committee to Unleash Prosperity has taken a novel approach to bring attention to the debt problem.  And, despite what many others say, the debt is unstainable.  The interest on the debt will soon exceed the budget for the military.

Don’t believe it?  The current U.S. national debt is $34 trillion+.  In his op-ed, “Who’s afraid of our national debt,” Stacey Vanke Smith wrote, “Maybe it’s more useful to put that number into an economic context: $34 trillion is bigger than the Chinese economy.  Add to that the economies of Japan, Germany, India and the United Kingdom, and combined they generate about $34 trillion a year.”

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