I don't know what to say about the national debt anymore. Since reaching the 9 trillion dollar mark, I have written an entry each time another 100 billion is added. It usually takes just under two months, but this time it only took just 19 days to add another 100 billion dollars. On February 21st the debt crossed the 9.3 trillion dollar mark; in less than three weeks it now exceeds 9.4 trillion dollars. I've complained about the lack of media coverage on this issue. I've complained about the lack of attention from our elected representatives. Now it is time to complain about we the people. Does anybody care that our country is accumulating debt at an unimaginable pace? There is no easy way to say this, but we are selling out our children and grandchildren. We are mortgaging their future so that we might avoid inconveniencing our present. The financial burden that we are leaving for future generations will make them look back on us with hatred and animosity.
 
"As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully."

Thomas Paine