You and crdoconnor are eloquently demonstrating the damage debt does to discourse. Whatever your political slant, in this case it looks like class warfare, it

You and crdoconnor are eloquently demonstrating the damage debt does to discourse. Whatever your political slant, in this case it looks like class warfare, it can be turned against itself when debt starts limiting the degrees of freedom political action can take. Conservatives will do the same thing -- for them the argument will be something like "if we can't fund the national defense/LE, why do we need a government in the first place?" Long term, this debt problem, whether local or national, is some nasty, radioactive stuff.