Nothing destroys a nation more than debt and at present the U.S. debt is $36.5 trillion dollars; by the end of the decade it will range somewhere from $42 trillion to over $47 trillion. Simply unsustainable and no, we can't print our way out of it either.
As Robert Heinlein once said, "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." At some point it has to be paid; better to bite the bullet now than pay later.
