The first thought that keeps occurring to me regarding our debt, is, how long can this continue? The second is, what generation will be stuck with the bill?
"A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering… And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."

-Thomas Jefferson

it's a start.