“What’s that mean to you?”
It doesn’t mean anything to me.
1) This report is from CNN. Do I need say more?
2) When has the debt not been too big?
3) When the debt is not increasing too fast, that’s news. Increasing too fast, dog bites man.
4) Raw numbers don’t mean anything. Compare it to GDP. Tell me how that compares to other times in history, other times when we are at war.
Why? Government spending (debt) is figured into GDP as a positive figure. So if the government reduced spending the favored economic indicator "GDP" would drop.