You mean by printing all the money it needs? Well, that would cause severe inflation, and put us in a worse situation. No one even suggested that as a solution. You didn't answer the question in any way, you just assumed they meant by printing more money. The national debt at the moment is 9 trillion dollars. Maybe that will help explain why it is yet unpaid.
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If there is no additional interest on the debt, so that it doesn't grow during the time you're paying it off, then at the rate of $5,000 per second, you can pay off $16 trillion in only 101.4 years.
Officially the estimated national debt of the United States for 2009 is: 12,867,500,000,000 However this figured does not include some long term obligations that could double the cost. In perspective if you made one dollar every second for the next 408,025 years, you would be able to pay it off (at the 12 trillion figure).
He shows her as petty and yet willing to work hard to pay off the debt.
That would depend on several variables: -- The interest rate on the debt. -- How often you make a payment. -- The amount of each payment.
"Pay" means to exchange something (usually money) for something or for some debt owed (usually for a thing or a receipt of payment).Therefore, "2 not pay" means you did "not pay" or you were not required to pay.