National Debt

Will 2012 be the year “Baby Boomers” and their parents begin to really show through more personal conservative spending habits and more frugal lifestyles that they understand and believe, Austerity is in America’s future?

What does it mean when national debt tops $15 trillion? What does it mean for every man, woman, and child in America? The word unsustainable comes to my mind. What word comes to yours?

Based on US spending, the National Debt is increasing faster than printing presses can print money. No other nation on earth has so much debt than the U.S. and that might bite us in the behind.

An historical review of attempts to cut taxes, cut the national debt, and create jobs.

President Obama’s American Jobs Act, failed to muster sufficient votes in the Senate last night. If enacted, the cost of the bill would have pushed the national debt beyond $15 trillion.

This is all about the President once again using more debt to create dubious or non-existent jobs.

With the National Debt Debate looming large, let's take a second and make sure that our generation knows that the Burden is Ours

Up for an Academy Award

This article offers my unique perspective on the future of our nation.

Time to Insist on a Department of Debt Management. U.S. Taxpayers Deserve "Better"

This editorial expresses Geithner's comments and my opinion on the National Debt Ceiling and National Debt.

An editorial about the importance of raising the national debt ceiling.

An analysis of the problems with the current proposals and bills aimed at resolving our national debt

Provides a summary of Obama's speech on the national debt and his position on the issues involved in the Republican budget.

How we got to the national debt being over 14 trillion dollars

The national debt replaces the Communists as the new Republican "Enemy that is going to destroy the United States"

How our national debt is so large

My analysis of the current budget crisis, the threatened government shutdown and the causes of the current national debt.

Comparative analysis of the national debt. Comparative analysis of personal tax rates. Going back to what made us succeed and prosper as a nation.

This article discusses a math project that has students write an opinion paper about the national debt from a mathematical perspective. It provides details of this math writing project.

The same day that 5,000 dead blackbirds rained from the night-time sky over the little Arkansas town of Beebe, the U. S. Treasury website reported that the national debt had topped the $14 trillion mark. Harbingers of bad times ahead? Perhaps...

My opinion on the current national debt and how to resolve it.

An idea for the U.S. Government to assist in payment on the national debt.

If immigrants were the answer to the national debt crisis, would it change the way you looked at immigration? Could it alter the comprehensive immigration reform debate in modern-day America? Maybe.

And yet, at the same time the unemployment benefits extension reauthorizations have been blocked because they have not been offset or provided for with extra federal revenue, the Republicans have been calling for the extension of all the Bush tax cuts...

A modest proposal to cut both the budget and the deficit.

Both parties like to claim the debt matters. They only want us to think it though when they aren't in power. So how does the debt really affect us?

Recent comments by Alan Simpson, a former senator from Wyoming and current co-chair of President Obama's debt commission, are causing outrage and consternation from liberal and elder groups.

Much has been made of the negative effects that high debt will bring upon future generations. However, interest payments are no more burdensome to future generations than if the budget were balanced via taxes today.

Which should come first in the eyes of the senate?

Why should you care about the National Debt? Because it keeps going up and so does the amount you owe!