[Cementjungle]

That means that if one counts only the official national debt, every man, woman and child in America owes $48,700. Include the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare, and every one of us is in debt to the tune of $189,000.

Divide the debt by the actual number of taxpayers (the ones who ultimately will be paying it off) and the numbers are much more frightening.

[nascarnation]

That’s an excellent point.

As a retiree I went from paying a lot of taxes to collecting on SS and Medicare and there’s a tidal wave of folks my age.

[LibsRJerks]

Add to that the amount many of us are underwater on our homes, and it gets even worse.

Something tells me we won’t be “paying this off” with just money.