If you look at the above sight you will see that it did not take 224 years to go 5 trillion dollars in debt. Clinton had us out of debt with all of his cutbacks. It did take us only 8 years to go to 10 trillion dollars in debt from zero, though, during Bush's administration. It is like I tell my friends- we have two choices on election day- (1) Lose all of our guns; or(2)go into a depression and lose all our guns by having to sell them for pennies on the dollar. Hmmmmmmmm........