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12 trillion dollars. That's a lot of cash. It is so much money that virtually no one can conceive of how much money 12 trillion dollars really is. While the American people were still trying to wrap their minds around the idea of what a billion dollars is, someone upped the ante. Big time.

A government website that tracks spending, gives the figure of just over $12 trillion as the official sum of the national debt of the United States. Of course, by the time this sentence was written the figure is even larger. That's right. Its borrowed money. And yes, interest has to be paid.

While a strict constitutionalist would argue that this is the debt of the Federal Reserve and not the debt of the American people, the citizens of the United States are ultimately the ones to have to settle the tab.

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