National Debt - Deliberate ploy to destroy America?

Why is it that the most obvious danger to America's economy is completely ignored?

The debt is now over seven trillion dollars. 7,000,000,000,000. It's being increased by a defecit of 400 billion this year. The principle on the interest alone this year is 316 billion.

The simplest individual knows that a household or a business must avoid 'being stuck in the hole,' or 'having the books in red.' In 1898, just before the Spanish American war, our national debt was about 1 billion. A little over a hundred years later it's seven trillion. The public doesn't seem to care, and only President Clinton seemed to be concerned with the debt out of all the US presidents.

The debt causes back-breaking taxation. Taxation without representation was one of the reasons the Revolutionary War started. Now we have massive taxation again, and we're starting to combine that with a police state. When Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neil told the President that the national debt was a bad thing, Dick Cheney said 'Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.'

Don't matter? Hell's Bells! The value of the US dollar is dependent on our ability to pay principle on the national debt. If we default, the dollar will become worthless! If there was no national debt, we could have an across-the-board 20% decrease in income tax. Why don't politicians push this point and strive to make America debt-free?

At what point will Americans say 'Enough taxation, this is ridiculous!' And stop paying taxes to the Federal Government, or, what if states decide they don't have to be part of such a fiscally bad government and simply secede?

Is there a conspiracy to cause another Civil War and remake America? If we combine back-breaking taxation (loss of freedom, since freedom = money) with an actual police state, the United States won't last long.

The negative affect of the National Debt has to be obvious to politicians and leaders. Why do the majority of them only increase it? Are they trying to bilk the government for everything its worth before it simply tanks?

Something smells here.

This country has become a meat filled Pinata. The majority of people are just waiting for someone to follow into battle..... yes the national debt is killing this country. the american dream has morphed into getting out of debt....... everyday i wake up and think to myself.... I didnt sign up for this crap.... but if we keep our eyes on the TV screen maybe we can live life like a reality TV show and have the state raise our children

Do you think the nation is being misled, say, pre-emptively, to respark liberty? Or is it just the cycle of nations that causes complacent people to become apathetic, dependent, and then slaves?