[Nevermark]

> Quibbling about our debt is dumb.

If only quibbling were a solution. :)

There just isn't a pattern of the US carefully spending its money in a virtuous borrow and grow cycle. Recently, anyway.

But you are right, the US is like a partner in a common enterprise (the global economy demarcated in dollars), which has the special right to keep giving itself more shares (dollars).

If they were also spending frugally, and wisely, they could flip to a government funds surplus "problem" pretty quickly.