A Nation in the Red: The Government Debt Crisis and What We Can Do About It

PREFACE

The federal government debt and deficit problem has been in the news over the last few years and has reached a fever pitch. There is no doubt the United States is in serious financial trouble. This book presents all the information necessary for you to understand how the country got here, how bad things are, and what can be done about it. As I listened to all the news over the last five years, I realized that I didn’t have enough information to determine if the nation really was at risk or whether the media was exaggerating. Sound bites could not give me enough information to make a decision about whether or not the U.S. government would collapse from its own debt or whether all the news was just sensationalism and the government was ...