Work was a little slow today so i had a little fun online reading about our national debt. Now the last time our debt decreased was 1960, when we went from 290.7 billion to 290.2 Billion. At the time, this was like $1,250 per person.

Now since 1960, we have grown the debt to $10,024,725,000,000 as of EOY 2008, about 32K per person, or 95K per tax payer. By the end of 2016 the CBO puts the debt at just over 16,000,000,000,000, that's $50K per person and about 150K, per tax payer. The GDP of this country, even if we grow at 4% until 2016, will still be under 15 TRILLION. We will have more debt than GDP since FDR and the great society (no i'm not trying to point out any political connections).

How do we stop this?

What ideas has EITHER side come up with to stop this destruction to this country?

Yes, i've heard a lot of people talk about a balanced budget, but even with 0 in budget deficit, we'll still pay almost 800 BILLION in interest alone on 16 Trillion in debt.

What has ANY polotician even mentioned about not only balancing the budget but paying down the Debt that will end this nation within 20 years?