Credit is what started this country, its how Hamilton took on the debt of all of the states, and to pay for the entire war, and to fund everything that america first did to become a country. It is what has made america great, and built everything we see around us, it is also what has elevated our standard of living. True it can bring us down also, but then this discussion will get to political, and I don't want that to happen.
America has problems, but nothing that cannot be solved, 14 Trillion is nothing in the grand scheme of things, even 50 Trillion, but there must be a way for polticians to work together in solving them. Thats america's problem the inability to compromise to get things done.
Its like anything, you take one step at a time, occasionally you trip over yourself, but if you get back up and just keep going.