[MtnClimber]

It is not sustainable and much reduction in spending will have to be done or our financial system will collapse. The sooner we start cutting the less painful it will be.

[No name given]

Exactly.

[Starboard]

The result is that the national debt is now $37 trillion – more than double what it was a decade ago.

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George Washington warned us about the accumulation of debt. And foreign entanglements too, by the way.

[libertylover]

It is not sustainable and much reduction in spending will have to be done or our financial system will collapse.

I'm no financial expert - just look at my bank account. But I honestly thought there would be a complete collapse of our economy before we got this far in debt.