So much ink has been spilled for so long on the national debt, it might be nice if that $22 trillion plus on the red side of the US balance sheet just didn’t really matter.

Especially when you realize that the $22 trillion is actually money that you and I have in our bank accounts, that the government hasn’t taken away from us in taxes.

Source: Debt? What debt? The new wave in Democratic thinking – CNNPolitics