August 27, 2026

Round numbers tend to get people’s attention. A particularly big round number caught everyone’s attention last week when our national debt surpassed the $40 trillion mark. While I have tried to keep us informed of the criticality of our debt problem in this column during the past few years, it has been largely ignored by the American public and the politicians who represent you.   While Democrats like to blame the problem on Republican tax cuts and Republicans like to blame the problem on out-of-control Democrat spending, this is a problem