there's a big correlation between debt and wealth.
IF you have a Business and need money to growth, you will use you'r own money OR will ask for a loan or credit line with you bank?
When you Buy a Home, are you getting poor or richer?. 99% of people in the world buy their home with debt.
there's two kind of debt.. good debt and bad debt.
The account deficit its about 1 or 2% our GDP, a very historically low leve and our total debt is around 65% our GDP (under roosevelt was about 110% our GDP).
IF you take a look at some europeans countries you'll be in shock. Italy have a 114% debt their GDP, portugal and Japan over 154% their GDP and france and germany have near 70% their GDP on Debt.
The Big difference with both kind of debt (usa vs europe) is that europe debt is based on social welfare and the usa debt is based on productivity (yeah, even war is a BIG financial provider).
Over the long run, USA is in better position than most of the rest of the industrial countries. the Chinese know this, and the arabs etc etc.
in a supply side economics, debt is NOT a problem. europe dont have a supply side economic model, they are socialists.
WE have BIG problems, its true.. but at least for now, and for the last 27 years, nothing its out of hand.
BTW some of you guys has been in china??? i went this summer, and guess what?, china is just a BIG factory from the economic point of view.
The problem with the american society is that 90% of the pople in this country dont spend a penny to travel outside. we tend to dramatize everything.
in the 30;s and 40's it was the end of the world
It didn't happen
in the 70's 80' and 90' was the end!!, it didnt happen
after 911 and the 2000 recession, america was on the verge of hell.. It didnt happen.
now, we have a economic slowdown and its the end.. we are in debt and putin will kill us..
the fact is that, we has been on debt for the last 70 years, and guess what.. this is how we became a super power.
nobody will become RICH without debt's (with smart debt's).. and war, like it or not.. is part of the "good debt".