The national debt could be payed off several times over if it was not for the private enterprise with it's closed books called the Federal Reserve which takes trillions out of the economy to fund foreign/domestic gambling & corporate welfare for which they have large stakes in.
Private banks control the government, not the other way around.
Thomas Jefferson stated, "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
