Problem has been building for years

I see by The Herald’s Nov. 30 editorial, “$6,934,336,812,784.39. Now that’s a pile of debt,” you’re becoming concerned about the national debt. I’m afraid you’re a bit late.

It’s at least 30 years ago that a few nervous voices were raised in Congress about the approach of a trillion-dollar national debt. Of course they were ignored and I said at the time that few if any of that group understood or cared to understand the enormity of such a number. So now in a month or so we’ll be up to a $7 trillion debt and you’re getting nervous.

If you had 7 trillion one-dollar bills and laid them out, edge to edge, 10 dollars to a square foot, you’d have a carpet seven miles wide and long enough to reach from Washington, D.C., to Seattle with enough to continue from Seattle half way to San Francisco. If you don’t believe this check it on your computer and remember, all that money was borrowed and spent while the Congress was taxing and spending additional trillions.

With rare exceptions on both sides of the aisle, Congress has become a pack of political animals who will willingly spend America into economic chaos if that’s what it takes to keep their position of power.

Monroe