[kjanyeaz1]

We're the only AAA country with a debt ratio that high. So, they're basicly just letting us keep the AAA based on our past reputation alone. If we don't get spending under control soon the AAA rating will get taken down.

http://news.yahoo.com/us-aaa-rating-...204040123.html

US borrowing tops 100% of GDP: Treasury

AFP – Wed, Aug 3, 2011

US debt shot up $238 billion to reach 100 percent of gross domestic project after the government's debt ceiling was lifted, Treasury figures showed Wednesday.

Treasury borrowing jumped Tuesday, the data showed, immediately after President Barack Obama signed into law an increase in the debt ceiling as the country's spending commitments reached a breaking point and it threatened to default on its debt.

The new borrowing took total public debt to $14.58 trillion, over end-2010 GDP of $14.53 trillion, and putting it in a league with highly indebted countries like Italy and Belgium.

Public debt subject to the official debt limit -- a slightly tighter definition -- was $14.53 trillion as of the end of Tuesday, rising from the previous official cap of $14.29 trillion a day earlier.

Treasury had used extraordinary measures to hold under the $14.29 trillion cap since reaching it on May 16, while politicians battled over it and over addressing the country's bloating deficit.

The official limit was hiked $400 billion on Tuesday and will be increased in stages over the next 18 months.

[bypeTeenehalT]

We've been in worse shape. After WWII, our debt to GDP was 122%. The government had to get involved and created public works projects to put Americans back to work during the Great Depression That brought unemployment down from above 20% to below 5%. Then we began paying down the debt. The debt to GDP steadily declined. Ten years later in 1956 it was down to 66%.

[rozneesitcn]

We've been in worse shape. After WWII, our debt to GDP was 122%. The government had to get involved and created public works projects to put Americans back to work during the Great Depression That brought unemployment down from above 20% to below 5%. Then we began paying down the debt. The debt to GDP steadily declined. Ten years later in 1956 it was down to 66%.

Be careful, you're going to confuse him with facts