Debt and the Economy in the United States(or more)

[Naoki Kashima]

"I have read and understood the [Debate State] guidelines."

This is a request for any thoughts/ideas/suggestions on how to handle the current state of the economy in the United States and/or the world economy.

In addition, ideas on how to handle the somewhat large national debt in the United States are also requested.

Hopefully, this discussion will sum up possible ideas (original or otherwise) as well as evaluate the feasibility of said possibilities.

Though the expected response are practical actions that are restrained by various political and social constraints, radical ideas such as "Go to war to kill off the population" are welcome. Although, it is advisable that such propositions are left applicable to the entire human race or has some reasoning behind it in order to prevent "racist" messages and ideas. That is, please do not suggest to kill off a particular ethnicity without some actual reason for doing so.

Feel free to maintain or discard this semi-formal style of writing.

[This thread inspired by a reminder of Blade's Economics teacher. "[The generation around age 14-20ish] will have to make some tough decisions in the future. I won't be around for that."]

[Renae Thrum]

"I have read and understood the guidelines."

Funny how there are never truly simple answers. Especially when dealing with the economy, and politics. For the sake of lazieness. I'm going to run with a free flow form of writing. So bear with me on mistakes both grammaticaly and spelling (blah). One of the biggest mistakes we've made with the economy is credit. Sure you can spend money now, that you may or maynot have in the future. Like this is an intelligent choice? I understand a loan. That is always backed or based on some form of collateral. If you don't pay this back we take your home, your car. There for yeah your going to make an effort to pay. Or be S.O.L. Then comes credit, which is based on your buying and spending habits. Oh, yah you have to pay money for the privlage to use this service monthly, then you add the interest which inccures on the amount you have used. Also don't forget to add the hidden fee's such as those charged by the stores, and instituions that charge money for processing the transactions. No wonder we're broke!