Argumentative Essay: National Debt In The United States

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National Debt At one point our national debt was only 34,000 dollars that was way back in 1834, today in December of 2012 our debt has gone up to about 59 trillion dollars. Many people don’t even know anything about our debt situation. It’s never fully explained on how we got so far in the red zone, it’s always hidden away like a dark secret of our government. Truthfully there are many explanations for our nation’s debt crisis. The U.S. government has stolen trillions of dollars from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day. The 59 trillion dollar binge that we have been on over the past 30 years has fueled the greatest standard of living the world has ever seen, but this wonderful life that…show more content…
Consider small businesses as an example, a company spends money to hire a new salesman. That person will probably increase sales and the company will regain what it spent hiring him/her. If the company spends money on a fancy lounge area they will just lose money. This type of unnecessary spending is what makes a deficit dangerous. Debt should not be a problem because we can just borrow more, right? This statement would be correct if our ability to borrow was unlimited, but it is not. At first the government borrowed internally from private sectors. The government did this by selling bonds to the private sectors, essentially selling its own countries funds to spend on its country. The problem of deficit spending out of a recession is inflation. Inflation means there is more demand or money than there are goods this causes an increase in prices and drives down the worth of the dollar. A five dollar bill is still a five dollar bill even if the five dollars are only worth a five cent piece of bubble gum, just the prices of things will be outrageously high because everyone would be fighting for the scarce

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