Debt is good.

I propose that debt is a good thing.  It means that you recognize that you owe someone something for benefits received.  And that feels good.

While a debt of over $146,000 per person may seem enormous, think of all it represents -- a share in

• public highways
• public schools
• public libraries
• public transit systems
• public parks
• public health clinics
• public records
• public information
• public servants, etc.

And then there's all the national stuff.  The question we have to ask is how come some of the people we elect to be the stewards of these treasures are wanting to give them away to people whose record of careful management is already suspect (bankruptcy is the evidence).  

Perhaps we should take a lesson from the Bible and get rid of unjust stewards.