[MNJohnnie]

You know this really has become the Rights version of "Global Warming" Hysteria based on no factual bases that is simply screamed over and over and over again in the hopes people will belive it.

Tell us oh fiscal "sages", how has Great Britian managed a National Debt for about 400 years now?

[Paul Ross]

Tell us oh fiscal "sages", how has Great Britian managed a National Debt for about 400 years now?

Well, first, it has not been 400 years, but really a little less than 300, and it hasn't always quite been "managed"... anyways the answers to your questions have a good start here, The Origins of National Debt: Happy reading...

""I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."

-Thomas Jefferson