Just so we are all on the same page – look here
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html
Our debt TODAY (after a very expensive 9/11, 2 wars, etc.!) is smaller per GDP or per capita or by many other measures then UK, Germany, France, etc. So, which country all the whiners on this page are proposing to use as a better managed example? I came here from USSR and sure hope you are not for copying that economy or their “free” medical care and education (may be Cuba’s is better?) Even small Norway with its practically socialist way of life and huge oil import has about $50,000 per capita debt, which is about $5,000 more then USA. But you have to wait a loooong time for a CAT scan and if you are an older person you may be told that it is practical to spend money at all on that “expensive” procedure.
