Why is our nation (not just one country) putting our generation and next generation into debts?

I believe that the intent is a power grab: the more that the government spends to provides for its people, the more people depend on the government to do for them all the things they can do for themselves. Then in turn, government raises taxes, and people allow it, as long as they get free education, healthcare, transportation, food stamps, retirement, etc. People don't realize that by taking our money, the government is really taking away our liberty. The less of your money you are allowed to keep, the fewer decisions you can make for yourself.

You don't get to decide what school or doctors you patronize, because the government took so much of your money, you'll have to go to the free ones. Keeping the money you make gives you freedom to choose how you spend it. Individuals in power want to be charge of every aspect of our lives, from whether adults need helmets when they drive a motorcycle to whether restaurants should be allowed to have transfats in our food, not to mention the types of lightbulbs we are allowed to use.

Such involvement requires massive power, typically driven by massive spending. I believe that today's governments wish to treat us like children and mandate our behavior in every aspect of life, just like totalitarian governments of the past: Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Stalin's Russia, etc.

From what I learned in economics is because a Government in theory has an infinite life expectancy. So the need to pay off the debts doesn't really exist. The other thing we learned is that the debt is not good, but not necessarily bad either.

The reason behind that is because inflation tends to eat away at the interest we are paying, so that the loan holders often end up making no profit. Personally I still don't think National debt is a good idea, even if inflation does eat away at the interest payments we are making. I think we can help by voting for people that will not accumulate more debt and will go in with a plan to start paying off the debt.

Also we can encourage politicians to cut wasteful spending, and find the best use for the money.

Recessions allways happen, we learned it in school years ago, and we learn it today. Its a cycle it has to go through, its really hard to avoid, and most governments are all about the * Good of the Current * not so concerned with the future as they claim. And as stated before, Debt gets eaten away with inflation.

Every leader is too concerned with * Their Time * and getting as much done during that time, that the big picture kinda gets skewed. This recession was bound to happen and predicted for many years, most people were caught by surprise because they neglected people telling them it would. But as allways.. it will pass and aleady is starting to.. That is unless the States goes into another full out war...

There is not much else that can be done at this point. We go into debt to bail out some companies and to try and create some jobs, or we go into debt to support millions more people who would be unemployed. This is really the result of irresponsible tax cuts in 2001.

If we had left the system alone, we would not have had to go into debt to pay for Afghanistan and Iraq, interest rates would have remained reasonable instead of dropping so low that irresponsible loans could be made, and when the normal downturn came we would not have had a housing crash which has led to an abnormally bad recession. This is a lesson to you younger people. No matter what political party is in power, they spend money that they refuse to raise.

Democrats equal tax and spend, tax and spend. Republicans equal borrow and spend, borrow and spend. We need to tax some and spend less.

And that includes on wars.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.