Dude, don't worry about that silly debt stuff. The answer is simple: inflation. What do you think QEI, QE2, Operation Twist, the stimulus bill and policies designed to raise energy prices are designed to do? Inflating your way out of debt is a tried and true economic policy. Just look at what it did for the Weimar Republic. Sure, there were some nasty side effects, but all of that WWI reparations debt was paid off on schedule. So what if it took a wheelbarrow full of Deutsch Marks to buy a freaking loaf of bread?