10 • RUBY, WILDING & SWANSBURG And, in the middle of a global pandemic, there’s an abregtuhme epnr itohrei t’ sy ,rei gvhe tn. Pi friot pmpei na gn sugprao wf l ai ni lgi noguUr .dSe. feiccoi tn. o m y m a y But, the time will come when we have to address this deficit spending—as the Secretar y says , whe n we’re i n “different times.” US Debt (in Trillions of Dollars)
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Source: U.S. Department of Treasury, National Debt So, we need to ask: H ow will the future America address our b all ooning deficit ? Deficit Correction Tools Fdioresst,n’ltemt emaen fbuetucrleear. The “future America” I referenced generations—i t means our generations in t he fut ure. The deficit ha s grow n t oo fast a nd t oo la rge t o simply assume the problem can wait thirty years to fix. So how do we —as a co untry—fix t he deficit?
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