[stig]

For example, at the turn of the new millennium, the national debt was $5.7 trillion. By 2010 it had more than doubled to $13.5 trillion. By 2020, it’ll be over $24 trillion.

People have been complaining how deficits will ruin the country since the Carter administration. Deficits don't matter. The deficit hawks have been wrong for 40 years.

[DuncanWaring]

Are you really claiming that the hundreds of gigabucks (and rising) the federal government spends each year on debt service doesn’t matter?

Will it ever matter?

If so, when?