Can our country survive being in this massive debt forever? The United States the country that we live and we just recently surpass $18 trillion in debt. Yes this number is trillion with a T. I don't know how we begin to comprehend something of this magnitude but we must for our future generations. We must set A plan of action for them so several hundred years down the line we can become a debt free country. The national debt what does this mean for citizens, is this a bad thing, how will we ever get out of it.
The first thing that we are addressing about America's debt crisis is how it affects citizens and how we can help. Asyst a statistic to put this into perspective is each person in America owes $54,000 in order to pay off the national debt. Now ask yourself this question do you have $54,000 just laying around that you would like to give to the government. If you answered…show more content… We all know even if you haven't studied government all that the national debt is bad. Common knowledge tell you that any sorted that is bad and should be avoided at all cost. But me personally I feel like The national debt hasn't affected me yet. This may very well change in the near future but as of today I feel like if you polled random citizens that they would tell you that they have not been affected by the massive $18 trillion debt that the United States has to their name. We may not see it now but in the near future we might start to lose funding for things such as space travel or defense. These are two huge things that are very influential to our country. Defense as in the army cost the government trillions of dollars annually that we spend that we do not get back nor do we have the money to pay for. If you can tell where I'm going with this we are eventually going to run out of all this fake money to spend and not be able to provide and defense for a country in this puts us in an awful