The Bill Comes Due: America's Debt Spiral and the Fiscal Judgment Day Washington Refuses to Face
For decades, Washington has treated the national debt as a problem for future generations to inherit, kicking the fiscal can down a road that is rapidly running out of pavement. The reckoning that both parties have conspired to delay is no longer a distant theoretical threat — it is arriving at America's doorstep with compound interest attached. When the final accounting comes, it will be ordinary citizens, not the architects of this catastrophe, who bear the crushing weight of judgment.