The national debt is a guaranteed outcome of the design of fiat, the brainchild from Jekyll Island.
Consider an extreme as an illustrator.
Imagine for a moment that there is NO money at all in the world. Some guy comes along, and invents it. He creates $100, loans it out, and expects to make 10% as a Bankster, telling a borrower, “pay me back $110”.
Now, before any other money is created, the borrower “uses” in some way the $100, and now must repay. Where does the interest come from? It doesn’t exist.
Multiply this end-point extreme example by Trillions, and voila... you get a $32+ Trillion national debt. It’s a natural fallout from having fraction-reserve debt-based fiat.
The private “Federal” reserve was tasked in 1913 to print the nations currency, in exchange for getting paid back with interest. A Bankster’s dream world.
And, I’ll add, a dream world where lots of people die.