National Debt vs GDP - why does it matter?

[Aadill]

vay, I think you're missing the overall point:

Frankly I don't mind defense spending when it's spent on defense. You know, like research (the same research that brought us superplastics, internet, etc), and general security (CIA, FBI) and even terrorist extraction/eradication... but just like every other department they are mismanaged.

Furthermore, all of those projected lines on your graph are pretty much following the same path as the ones on this graph:

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Coupled with this, what else would you expect? Some people want to remove all of this mandatory spending but still be covered under magic age-cutoff point of Medicaid/Medicare/Obamacare. The very people that are clamoring for the shutdown of the government in exchange for their private funds? It's self defeating, in my opinion.

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