A Balanced Budget is a BIG Deal
May 04, 2011While on vacation recently I had an opportunity to do something I don’t often find the time to do: think. I had the chance to read the morning paper and scan a few of the opted articles that had differing viewpoints on a topic that seems to be getting a lot of attention these days: our nation’s debt and the importance of balancing the budget. Now when I was in college, I had a roommate explain that the national debt really wasn’t that big of a deal because we essentially owed the money to ourselves, so who cares? Well, I’m not really sure that’s how it works, so I wanted to spell out why the national debt and having a balance budget ARE BIG DEALS when it comes to our economy as a whole. Continue reading “A Balanced Budget is a BIG Deal”