With budget ‘deal,’ national debt free to soar again
Posted on AllSides October 17th, 2013
From The Right
The good news: The national parks are open, furloughed federal workers are back on the job, and the country will not cut off benefit payments because it can't borrow.
The bad news: The national debt is back on course to hit $17 trillion any day now, with no deal in sight to ever reverse the climb.
The latest increase in the debt cap is the sixth since President Obama took office, when the debt was $10.6 trillion. It was raised three times when Democrats controlled Congress, and has...
