By Selwyn Duke

Once a sense of futility sets in, people just give up. This truth comes to mind when pondering our national debt, now a whopping $27 trillion. For unlike Harry Potter’s Voldemort, it today is hardly even alluded to, never mind named.

To put this number in perspective, 27 trillion one-dollar bills stacked up would reach to the moon and back more than three times. It’s perhaps so beyond comprehension that it’s also beyond conversation. That is, I’m old enough to remember when the Democrats and Republicans represented, respectively, fiscal laxity and fiscal responsibility.

Now the Democrats are still the party of taxing and spending, and the GOP is the party of not taxing and spending — which makes spending nation-rending.  

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