Today, we've heard so much about the debt ceiling.  Yes, it's high and needs to be dealt with. But you don't do it by cutting social programs for the neediest among us. Perhaps if the wealthiest among us and corporations paid their fair share of taxes, we wouldn't be in this mess. The Gross National Debt So, there's your National Debt. The other place we could slow that clock down a whole lot is by doing away with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. See what we're blowing there? #costOfWarTotal { text-align: center; width: 270px; font-weight: bold; } #costOfWarTotal_Total { [...]