Neither you nor I voted for a National Debt of $35.001 trillion

  The Bureau of Public Debt is a unit of the Department of Treasury, because of changes in their website, to visit the current government site for National Debt you have to type into your browser [debt to the penny] and for interest paid out [interest expense on us public debt outstanding], they (the powers to be) have made that one much more difficult (good luck)

  In the Bible is a section titled Proverbs, I prefer to look at it as the book of cause and effect, this book explains that when people make bad choices bad things happen; when one looks at the debt and what it’s going to take to repair the mess is basically the epitome of politicians (both the Asses and Elephants) making bad choices and the rest of getting to suffer the consequences of their actions.

Fed won’t keep interest rates low so Washington can cheaply finance record debt, Waller says

We The Little People
&
our kids are about to get hosed

2.25% Interest rate on a 30 year plan

National Debt:       $ 28,500,000,000,000
Monthly payment:     $    108,940,140,000
Total Interest Paid: $ 10,718,450,090,000
Total Loan Payments: $ 39,218,450,090,000

4.5% Interest rate on a 30 year plan

National Debt:       $ 28,500,000,000,000
Monthly payment:     $    144,405,310,000
Total Interest Paid: $ 23,485,912,790,000
Total Loan Payments: $ 51,985,912,790,000

7% Interest rate on a 30 year plan

National Debt:       $ 28,500,000,000,000
Monthly payment:     $    189,611,210,000
Total Interest Paid: $ 39,760,036,010,000
Total Loan Payments: $ 68,260,036,010,000

Not making any Payments; still increasing Debt

  The Republicans (Elephants) took this nation off the Gold Standard in 1971 when Nixon was President.
  The U.S. Government owns 261,498,926 oz of gold, in 1971 gold was $35 an oz which made the gold reserves worth $9,151,412,410.
  The U.S Government is $35,001,278,000,000 in the hole (U.S. debt); to go back to the Gold Standard which the Republicans abandoned, gold would have to be priced over $135,000 an oz
  Using gold as the standard the inflation rate of the United States of America is 311,291%.
  In any other country on this planet called Earth except in the United States of American 315,000% increase in Debt to reserves ratio would be viewed as Hyper-Inflation.

  What the hell are Asses and Elephants in Washington D.C. smoking and whatever it is they should share because it has to be good; nah, on second thought probably just more Horse, Elephant or Bullshit which they already pawn off to We The People.

  The deficit increased over $7.8 Trillion during the Trump Presidency, deficit increased $6.181 Trillion during the Biden Presidency so far. 

“Extraordinary Measures” on Debt
Just “Cook the Books”
Why be Disingenuous

From the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Extraordinary Measures
have become
Standard Operating Procedures

Lets not forget Social Security still has problems & insanity still rules in D.C.

  Budget surplus must first go toward debt reduction; Jan. 1998
  Our Government rules when it comes to cooking books; The Associated Press, July 2002
  From USNews & World Report - And Pigs Will Fly; Oct 2002
  The looming national benefit crisis; Unfunded Obligations USA TODAY; Oct 2004
  Congress can cancel or cut Social Security and Medicare any time; USA TODAY Aug 2006
  The coming Financial Crisis, Who will Pay the U.S. Debt Sept 2006
  Sundown in America;

  There are a large number of people who do not understand the correlation between debt and deficit, the definitions for those words have been included.