We can't do it now...that's why it's called debt...we owe someone else money because they paid for what we purchased for us.

The national debt is definitely a problem (though not a huge one), and it would be good to reduce it to nothing in a reasonable amount of time so as to get rid of the interest.

However, everyone seems to think only the United States has a debt problem. This is blatently incorrect. A a percentage of GDP (a useful indicator of how much of an actual problem it is), the U.S. at ~65% devt is slightly behind France, Germany, and Canada, so these countries are even worse off then the U.S. Meanwhile, Japan isn't collapsing, and it has a debt as a percentage of GDP of ~2.6 times that of the U.S.

I'm assuming everyone doesn't care about Hydrogen and Plutonium and Fusions llesson #2 and eplining it in laymens terms. However, I do have to say that at some point, all of these countries will have to pay their debt! The interest alone will eat them alive!

-S