Vote out those who grow country's debt

Our national debt is $13.2 trillion and growing. In 2008, we spent $253 billion in interest alone. Over the next 10 years, the national debt is projected to be almost $20 trillion and interest is expected to be in excess of $900 billion annually.

It's a trillion here, a trillion there, that the politicians throw out until we've become conditioned to the point that figures are meaningless to us.

DefeattheDebt.com figures show the magnitude of this problem: “ ... if 1 million seconds will pass in the next 12 days,

1 trillion seconds will take over 30,000 years to pass us by.” No, this is not a typo. Neither is our $13.2 trillion debt.

Today, we are borrowing $1 million every 30 seconds. Our obscenely huge national debt has consequences for all of us. This debt will soon mean higher taxes, higher interest rates, inflation and fewer jobs. Washington politicians are more than happy to keep spending this country further into debt, so it's up to all of us to put an end to this reckless behavior.

Our only hope is to vote out the big spenders regardless of their political affiliations. Vote on Nov. 2 as if your personal freedoms and economic security depend on it. They do.

Marty Sixt

Iowa City